| 词组 | blow up |
| 释义 | blow up 1. blow up sth • blow sth up to destroy something using a bomb: ▪ The two men are accused of blowing up TWA Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988. ▪ Nato forces have blown up almost all the bridges over the Danube. ▪ An army bus carrying 10 soldiers was blown up by a land mine. 2. blow up to be destroyed in an explosion: ▪ Investigators are trying to find out what caused the rocket to blow up in midair. 3. blow up sth • blow sth up to fill something with air or gas: ▪ The tyre needs blowing up. Have you got a bicycle pump? ▪ Come and help me blow up the balloons. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pump up, inflate formal ■ OPPOSITE: let down blow-up adj always before noun a blow-up object is one that you fill with air and is usually made of plastic or rubber: ▪ a blow-up doll 4. blow up to suddenly become very angry and start shouting: ▪ Why did he blow up like that? He's usually so calm. ▪ Soon after our wedding, she started to blow up over the slightest thing. ■ SIMILAR TO: explode blow-up n C usually singular a sudden angry argument: ▪ After our blow-up, Larry didn't speak to me for a week. 5. blow up sth • blow sth up to make a much larger copy of something, especially a photograph: ▪ This picture is absolutely gorgeous - you should blow it up and hang it in the living room. ▪ Jerry blew up a picture of himself and gave it to his girlfriend for Christmas. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑enlarge blow-up n C a photograph or picture that has been made much larger: ▪ The evening news showed a blow-up of a spy satellite picture taken over Cuba. 6. blow up if an angry argument or a difficult situation blows up, it suddenly starts to happen: ▪ A diplomatic crisis has blown up over Nato's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. 7. blow up sth • blow sth up usually passive to talk about something in a way that makes it seem more important or more serious than it really is: ▪ The story got blown up by the press. + into ▪ I don't know why you've blown this up into such a big deal - it was just a joke! blow sth up out of proportion ▪ The whole thing is being blown up out of all proportion by the Western media. 8. blow up if a storm or strong wind blows up, it suddenly starts: ▪ The sky's getting dark - it looks like there's a storm blowing up. |
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