2PHRASAL VERB 关停,关闭(企业或其他组织) When someone winds up a business or other organization, they stop running it and close it down completely. 关停,关闭(企业或其他组织) [business] [Also VERB n PREPOSITION]
The Bank of England seems determined to wind up the company. [VERBPREP. noun]
3PHRASAL VERB 最终沦落到;最终落得;(以…)告终 If you wind up in a particular place, situation, or state, you are in it at the end of a series of actions, events, or experiences, even though you did not originally intend to be. 最终沦落到;最终落得;(以…)告终
He could wind up in gaol. [VERBPREP. prep./adv.]
他可能最后会进监狱。
Little did I know that I would actually wind up being on the staff. [VERBPREP. verb-ing]
我完全没有想到自己最后竟会在这里供职。
Both partners of the marriage wound up unhappy. [VP adj/n]
最后婚姻双方都不幸福。
4PHRASAL VERB 摇上(车窗等) When you wind up something such as the window of a car, you make it move upwards by turning a handle. 摇上(车窗等)
He started winding the window up but I grabbed the door and opened it. [VERB noun PREP.]
他开始摇上车窗,但我一把抓住并拉开了车门。
5PHRASAL VERB 故意惹恼;挑衅 If you wind someone up, you deliberately say things which annoy them. 故意惹恼;挑衅 [British, informal] [Also VERBPREPOSITION n]
This woman really wound me up. She kept talking over me. [VERB noun PREP.]
1ADJ [ADJ n](机械装置)装有发条的,用手柄操作的 A wind-up device is a mechanical device with a handle or key that you turn several times before you use it in order to make it work. (机械装置)装有发条的,用手柄操作的
...an old-fashioned wind-up gramophone.
老式手摇唱机
2N-COUNT [usually singular]故意惹人生气的玩笑;故意戏弄人的把戏 A wind-up is a joke or trick in which someone deliberately tells you something untrue in order to annoy you. 故意惹人生气的玩笑;故意戏弄人的把戏 [British, informal]
At first I couldn't believe it. I thought it was a wind-up by one of my mates. [+ by]