drum up

英 [drʌm ʌp]

美 [drʌm ʌp]

竭力争取（支持）; 兜揽（生意）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 竭力争取(支持);兜揽(生意)
  If youdrum upsupport or business, you try to get it.
  1. The UN secretary-general arrived in Tokyo to drum up support for international peacekeeping...
     联合国秘书长抵达东京竭力为国际维和争取支持。
  2. It is to be hoped that he is merely drumming up business.
     但愿他只是在招揽生意。

英英释义

verb

• gather
  1. drum up support
  Synonym:beat uprally

双语例句

• You were hired to drum up new business, so go and do it.
  公司雇你招徕新业务，你就做你的事好了。
• Developers are increasingly resorting to creative sales tactics to drum up interest.
  为此，越来越多的开发商正在采取富有创意的销售策略。
• He had flown to the north of the country to drum up.
  他飞到该国北方去为竞选争取支持。
• But it's a lot of work to drum up that much foreign business when you pour lead and melamine into all your products.
  如果你想吸引大批的外国业务，但你的产品中含有铅或三聚氰胺时，你需要做大量的工作。
• He had flown to the north of the country to drum up support for the campaign.
  他飞到该国北方去为竞选争取对这一运动的支持。他们未能激起人们对新政府的热情。
• I have just started in a new role to drum up clients for a corporate consultancy.
  我刚开始做一份新工作，为一个公司顾问机构招徕客户。
• Just think, without a son, he couldn't drum up a family;
  想想看吧，本来就没有儿子，不能火火炽炽的凑起个家庭来；
• I will drum up an excuse for coming to see you next week.
  我要找个借口下周好来看你。
• Corporate sponsorship has been proving hard to drum up in these troubled economic times.
  而在如今困难的经济环境下，也很难吸引到企业赞助。
• George was sending him out into the rural districts to drum up trade.
  乔治赞成派他到乡下招揽生意。