1PHRASAL VERB-ERG (使)積聚;(使)逐漸增加 If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it. (使)積聚;(使)逐漸增加
The regime built up the largest army in Africa. [VERBPREP. noun]
該政權逐漸建立起一支非洲規模最大的軍隊。
The collection has been built up over the last seventeen years. [VERBPREP. noun (not pronoun)]
在過去的17年中,收藏的規模不斷擴大。
Slowly a thick layer of fat builds up on the pan's surface. [VERBPREP.]
慢慢地,平底鍋表面積起了一層厚厚的油脂。
2PHRASAL VERB 增強…的體質;建立…的信心 If you build someone up, you help them to feel stronger or more confident, especially when they have had a bad experience or have been ill. 增強…的體質;建立…的信心
Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear. [VERB noun PREP.]
用友善和富有同情心的傾聽來重拾她的信心。
Dr. Johnson and I have been trying to build him up physically. [VERB noun PREP.]
2N-COUNT [usually singular](對某活動的)宣傳,造輿論 The build-up to an event is the way that journalists, advertisers, or other people talk about it a lot in the period of time immediately before it, and try to make it seem important and exciting. (對某活動的)宣傳,造輿論
We should wait at least until winter before we start the build-up to Christmas.
我們至少要等到冬天再開始着力營造聖誕節的氣氛。
The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them.