pump up

英 [pʌmp ʌp]

美 [pʌmp ʌp]

用泵（或气筒）给…打气

化学

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 用泵（或气筒）给…打气
  If youpump upsomething such as a tyre, you fill it with air using a pump.
  1. I tried to pump up my back tyre.
     我试图给后胎打气。
• PHRASAL VERB （尤指通过自我心理暗示）给自己打气，自我鼓励
  If youpump yourself up forsomething, you prepare yourself for it mentally, especially by telling yourself that you can succeed.
  1. They find it difficult to pump themselves up for the games.
     他们感到要为自己加油打气，自信满满地去打比赛并不容易。

双语例句

• The inescapable fact, however, is that one day the water is going to run out or become too expensive to pump up.
  然而，不可避免的事实是某一天水将会被用光，或者用泵取水将变得十分昂贵。
• Pump up the tires hard before going out on the road.
  上路之前先把轮胎打足了气。
• During my visits to China, I have seen first-hand the ingenuity of your people, and together we can demonstrate how green technology can protect our natural resources and pump up our economies.
  在访华期间，我对中国人民的聪明才智有了切身体会。通过共同的努力，我们可以展现绿色技术如何帮助我们保护自然资源和促进经济增长。
• Some more good results will further pump up everything and will show the potential that the team has.
  未来更多的好成绩会对所有事产生鼓励作用，那将展示出车队的潜力。
• Then the bar can pump up the oscillations like a parent pushing a child on a swing.
  如此一来，棒子会像父母推动小孩的秋千般，提升恒星振荡。
• Ben Bernanke may have to pump up the shadow banking system in order to stop manipulating the bond market.
  或许本•伯南克只能选择让影子银行体系膨胀，才能终止对债券市场的操纵。
• All of these can pump up your attitude.
  这些都会让你的态度变得积极。
• But you can pump up your willpower or trick it into helping you spend less.
  但是你可以发挥你的意志力或哄骗它帮你节省开支。
• The legs that are too short for track and hurdles can pump up and down, carrying him around those bases faster than you can see.
  他的一双腿太短，不适合赛跑和跨栏，但却能像唧筒似地上下运动，带着他飞快地踏垒，快得让你都来不及看。
• Policymakers, banking on sustained lower inflation, are now seeking to pump up growth.
  指望通胀持续走低的决策者们，目前正试图推动经济增长。