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 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。
• I kind of want to pump up my profile a little bit.
  我想要你多报道点关于我的内容。
• These quantitative easing programmes a way to pump up the economy when cutting official interest rates is not enough have helped lower long-term interest rates.
  这些定量宽松计划帮助降低了长期利率。当下调官方利率不足以提振经济时，定量宽松计划成为提振经济的一种手段。
• 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。
• I tried to pump up my back tyre.
  我试图给后胎打气。
• 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。
• They have cut prices in an attempt to pump up sales.
  他们降低了售价，试图通过此来促进销售量大幅增长。
• Which means we're really gonna have to pump up production.
  那是说我们有更多的活干了。
• 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。
• Protein-rich snacks like yogurt can even pump up your probability for ditching the pounds.
  像酸奶这样富含蛋白质的零食甚至能帮助人减重。