rev up

英 [rev ʌp]

美 [rev ʌp]

（使）加快转速; （使）加速

柯林斯词典

• → see:rev 1
• PHRASAL VERB-ERG (使)更激烈;(使)更活跃
  If yourevsomethingup, or if itrevs up, it becomes more intense or more active.
  1. The temptation to rev up the arms race with high-tech weapons is especially dangerous...
     通过研发高科技武器加速军备竞赛的诱惑尤其危险。
  2. Now he plans to rev up publicity with a regional media campaign.
     现在他准备通过开展地区性的媒体活动加大宣传力度。

英英释义

verb

• increase the number of rotations per minute
  1. rev up an engine
  Synonym:rev
• speed up
  1. let's rev up production
  Synonym:step up

双语例句

• He's noticed that some workers tend to sleep poorly on Sunday night, feeling wired as they rev up for the week or rehearsing the next day's agenda in their heads.
  他注意到，一些职场人士往往在周日晚上睡得不好，亢奋地思虑一周的事情或是在脑子里演练第二天的日程。
• We are social animals, and interactions always rev us up.
  我们是社会性动物，互动总是使我们更有生气。
• In the first place you must rev it up to warm the engine.
  首先你必须让发动机转起来预热。
• It is far from clear that any huge temporary fiscal stimulus will rev up the engine enough to achieve self-sustaining growth.
  采取大规模临时性财政刺激，能否对经济产生足够的提振、使之实现自我维持的增长，这一点还远没有定论。
• But many people already living in cities fear China's massive rural population which makes up nearly half of the country's 1.3 billion total population will strain schools and hospitals and rev up competition for services.
  但很多已经住在城市的人担心，中国大量农村人口会让学校和医院人满为患，让各项服务的竞争越来越激烈。中国目前人口总数为13亿，其中近一半为农村人口。
• It turns out that nicotine can rev up brain cells that normally signal people to stop eating when they're full, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
  《科学》杂志在周五刊登了研究者的发现：原来尼古丁能够让大脑细胞加速运转，通常这样会让大脑发出信号，让人们在吃饱的时候不再进食。
• Rev it up: Pair pineapple with protein-rich yogurt or nonfat cottage cheese.
  如何搭配：可将菠萝配合富含蛋白质的酸奶或脱脂奶酪一起食用。
• Coastal contacts, one of the largest online contact-lens retailers in North America, came out of its two-day planning session at a loss for how to rev up growth.
  作为北美最大的网上隐形眼镜零售商之一，CoastalContacts在结束两天的策略规划议程时，对如何加速业务增长仍无头绪。
• Rev it up to warm the engine. let sth rip allow ( a car, machine, etc) to go at its top speed
  让发动机转起来预热.让（汽车、机器等）以最高速度行驶或运转
• And it's time for a new chief executive to rev revenues up further.
  现在正是一位新任首席执行官进一步加快利润增长的时候。