bring up
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
— When you're in the basement, can you bring up the paints?
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To mention.
— Don't bring up politics if you want to have a quiet conversation with that guy.
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To raise or rear (children).
— In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed.
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To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
— A short Internet search brought up some amazing details of this story.
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To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
— Wait a minute while I bring up my computer.
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To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
— Anyone who's been tasked with bringing up a board knows how trying it is.
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To vomit.
— I was very ill today; I kept bringing up everything I ate.
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To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
— "[…]Mr. Wolfe, I beg you—I beg of you—" I was sure she was going to cry and I didn't want her to. But Wolfe brusquely brought her up: "That's all, Miss Barstow.[…]"
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To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.
— Warner smacked a four over midwicket to bring up his century.
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To legally charge and put on trial; to position (someone) for judgement or examination by authority.
— The book [The Gilded Hearse] was brought up on obscenity charges, partly as a result of the gay content, but a New York magistrate dismissed the charges.
- To level type or make it ready for printing by overlaying it.
- To prepare a vein for an injection.
词源
From Middle English bryngen up, dissimilated from Middle English upbryngen (“to bring up, raise”). Doublet of upbring.
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