词组 | round up |
释义 | round up 1. round sb/sth up • round up sb/sth to find and gather a group of people or animals together: ▪ See if you can round up a few friends to help you. ▪ Shane and two other cowboys rounded up the ponies and drove them into the corral. round-up n C an occasion when animals are collected together: ▪ the annual cattle round-up 2. round up sb • round sb up to search for and find a particular group of people and force them to go to prison: ▪ Police quickly rounded up dozens of suspected terrorists and threw them in jail. ▪ 74,000 French Jews were rounded up by the Nazis and shipped to concentration camps. round-up n C when a particular group of people are taken away and forced to go to prison: ▪ a round-up of suspected drug dealers 3. round up sth • round sth up to increase an exact number to the nearest higher whole number, or the nearest 10, 100 etc above it: ▪ The total came to $299.50, so I rounded it up to $300. ► compare ↑round down, ↑round off |
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