1PHRASAL VERB-ERG (使)积聚;(使)逐渐增加 If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it. (使)积聚;(使)逐渐增加
The regime built up the largest army in Africa. [VERBPREP. noun]
该政权逐渐建立起一支非洲规模最大的军队。
The collection has been built up over the last seventeen years. [VERBPREP. noun (not pronoun)]
在过去的17年中,收藏的规模不断扩大。
Slowly a thick layer of fat builds up on the pan's surface. [VERBPREP.]
慢慢地,平底锅表面积起了一层厚厚的油脂。
2PHRASAL VERB 增强…的体质;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. 增强…的体质;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倾听来重拾她的信心。
Dr. Johnson and I have been trying to build him up physically. [VERB noun PREP.]
2N-COUNT [usually singular](对某活动的)宣传,造舆论 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. (对某活动的)宣传,造舆论
We should wait at least until winter before we start the build-up to Christmas.
我们至少要等到冬天再开始着力营造圣诞节的气氛。
The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them.