| 词组 | run up |
| 释义 | run up 1. run up to suddenly run to where someone or something is and stop next to them: ▪ A man with a gun ran up and shot him dead. + to ▪ Anne ran up to Mrs Lynde. "I hate you!" she shouted. 2. run up debts/losses/a bill/a deficit etc to borrow or lose a lot of money, or have to pay a big bill for something: ▪ The Rome Opera company has run up debts of over $40 million. ▪ While she was at college she ran up a huge phone bill. ▪ In September Daiwa Bank announced that a New York bond trader had run up $1.1 billion in losses. ■ SIMILAR TO: accumulate formal 3. run up your credit card to spend a lot of money using your credit card: ▪ He had no money of his own, he just ran up his wife's credit card until the bank stopped the card. 4. run up sth especially AmE to succeed in achieving something - use this to say how successful or unsuccessful someone has been: ▪ The Sonics ran up 64 victories this year. 5. run up sth • run sth up if you run up a flag, you raise it on a pole, usually by pulling a rope: ▪ The school had run up the South African flag in honour of Mandela's visit. 6. run up sth • run sth up BrE to quickly make something, especially a piece of clothing using a sewing machine: ▪ If I give her the material, she can easily run up the dress for me at home. |
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