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

• Pump up the tires hard before going out on the road.
  上路之前先把轮胎打足了气。
• 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。
• He tried to pump up a poem.
  他绞尽脑汁想挤出一首诗来。
• Forget bonuses and incentives& what would really pump up the pulse of worker productivity is a nice afternoon nap.
  别去想奖金和激励手段了&真正能提高员工效率的是一个香甜的午觉。
• They believe what would really pump up the pulse of worker productivity is a nice afternoon nap, rather than those bonuses and incentives.
  他们相信真正能够提高工人生产积极性的是一个很好的午间小睡而不是那些奖金和鼓励。
• 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。
• 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。
• Policymakers, banking on sustained lower inflation, are now seeking to pump up growth.
  指望通胀持续走低的决策者们，目前正试图推动经济增长。
• The government has budgeted more than$ 23 billion since November to pump up the economy.
  韩国政府从去年11月以来为刺激经济制定了230亿美元的预算拨款。
• First of all, we need to pump up the balloons.
  首先，我们必须将汽球充气。