| 词组 | go up |
| 释义 | go up 1. go up if a price or the level of something goes up, it increases: ▪ The rate of violent crime among young people in the US is still going up. ▪ House prices in this area are going up and up. ▪ Because of fierce competition, the price of computers keeps going down, while their quality keeps going up. ▪ Cigarettes have gone up. (=have become more expensive) ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑rise, increase ■ OPPOSITE: go down 2. go up to travel north + to ▪ We stayed in San Francisco and then went up to Seattle for a few days. ■ OPPOSITE: go down 3. go up BrE to go to a town or city from a smaller place: ▪ I'd like to go up to London to do some Christmas shopping. 4. go up to walk until you are next to someone or something, in order to talk to them or do something: ▪ The boys went up and asked her for her autograph. + to ▪ Dylan went up to the microphone and started singing. 5. go up if new buildings go up, they are built: ▪ New high-rise apartment buildings are going up all around the town. 6. go up to explode or start burning: ▪ A lit cigarette fell on the sofa, and within minutes the whole room had gone up. go up in flames ▪ The car rolled down the bank, and went up in flames. 7. go up if a shout, cry etc, goes up, the people in a place make a noise that expresses how they feel: ▪ A groan went up as Miss Hirsch reminded the class about their vocabulary test. ▪ A wild cheer went up from the people standing on the street, as a fireman emerged from the house carrying a child. 8. go up BrE to move to a higher group of sports teams and players who play together: ▪ United will go up to the first division next season. ■ SIMILAR TO: be promoted ■ OPPOSITE: go downBrE 9. the lights go up if the lights go up in a cinema or theatre, they are turned on because the film or show has ended: ▪ The lights went up, and people started to leave the cinema. ■ OPPOSITE: go downBrE old-fashioned 10. go up BrE old-fashioned to begin studying at university + to ▪ She went up to Oxford in 1975. ■ OPPOSITE: go down |
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