| 释义 |
pump up
verb- to increase something, to inflate something, to turn something higher US
- That was it for Anne and Ted and I, and we left together as we’d arrived, but pumped up from Ochs. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 74, 1987
- Turn your radios up! Crank it up so’s we can hear it! Come on, pump it up, man! — Airheads, 1994
- when lifting weights, to engorge the muscles with blood in order to inflate and define them US
- — American Speech, p. 201, Fall 1984: “The language of bodybuilding”
- to conduct an exhaustive and detailed briefing US
- — Department of the Army, Staff Officer’s Guidebook, p. 64, 1986
- while gambling, to lose at a steady rate US
- — Lee Solkey, Dummy Up and Deal, p. 118, 1980
|