| 词组 | wind up |
| 释义 | wind up 1. wind sth up • wind up sth • wind up if you wind up a meeting or activity or it winds up, you end it or it ends: ▪ I walked in as Palmer was winding up the debate with an extremely clever and amusing speech. ▪ The Foreign Minister wound up a two-day visit by announcing an agreement with Havana. ▪ With a bit of luck, the meeting should wind up by about four o'clock. 2. wind sth up • wind up sth usually passive BrE to reduce the activity of a business, organization etc until it closes completely: ▪ The department is being wound up and its responsibilities will be distributed elsewhere. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑wind down 3. wind up informal to get into a particular situation or place at the end of a long series of events and without wanting to: ▪ That's enough for one night or you'll wind up drunk. ▪ Stricter discipline is needed in order to stop children like these winding up in reform school or prison. ▪ If the situation continues, some doctors could wind up losing their jobs. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑end up 4. wind sb up • wind up sb informal, especially BrE to deliberately say or do something that you know will annoy or worry someone, because you think it is funny: ▪ Don't pay any attention to him! He's just winding you up! ▪ A lot of teenagers seem to enjoy winding up their parents. wind-up n C usually singular something that someone says or does deliberately to annoy another person: ▪ Are you serious, or is this just a wind-up? 5. wind sb up • wind up sb informal if something winds you up, it annoys you: ▪ It really winds me up when people criticize things they know nothing about. ■ SIMILAR TO: annoy, piss sb off informal 6. be wound up BrE informal if someone is wound up, they feel tense and anxious and unable to relax + about ▪ Sarah's very wound up about her interview next week. get wound up ▪ Try not to get too wound up about the exams. ■ SIMILAR TO: be anxious, be nervous 7. wind sth up • wind up sth to wrap something long such as string or hair around itself, so that it forms the shape of a ball: ▪ She wound her hair up and pinned it on top of her head. + into ▪ The sales assistant cut of a length of wire and wound it up into a ball. 8. wind sth up • wind up sth to make a clock, watch, or machine work, by turning a handle or key: ▪ It's a lovely old watch, but you have to remember to wind it up every day. wind-up adj always before noun operated by a key or handle that you turn in order to make it work: ▪ Valeria had an old wind-up gramophone and a collection of records. 9. wind sth up • wind up sth BrE to close a car window by making the glass move upwards using a handle or a button: ▪ Tell me if you're cold in the back and I'll wind up the window. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑roll up especially AmE ■ OPPOSITE: wind down |
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