| 词组 | show up |
| 释义 | show up 1. show up informal to arrive, especially at a place where people are expecting you: ▪ We spent half an hour waiting for Martin to show up. ▪ Macari failed to show up for the match ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑turn up, ↑pitch up BrE informal 2. show up BrE if a problem or fault shows up, it is easy to see or notice: ▪ In the sunlight, the decayed state of the house showed up clearly. ▪ We were told that the bone was definitely broken - it had shown up on the X-ray. 3. show up sth • show sth up BrE to make a problem or fault easy to see or notice: ▪ These results have shown up serious faults in our examination system. ▪ Richards is to have further tests on his injured shoulder, which should show up the extent of the damage. ■ SIMILAR TO: reveal 4. show up sb • show sb up informal to make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed, because of something that you do or say: ▪ You can always rely on your children to show you up in public! ■ SIMILAR TO: embarrass 5. show sb/sth up • show up sb/sth usually passive to show that someone or something is bad, unpleasant etc, especially when it was not clear before + as ▪ By now the administration had lost control, had been shown up as useless. be shown up for what it is (=be shown to be something bad, unpleasant etc) ▪ The idea was soon shown up for what it was: a waste of time and money. |
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