beef up

英 [biːf ʌp]

美 [biːf ʌp]

增加; 加强; 改进; 提高

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 改善；加强；改进；提高
  If youbeef upsomething, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
  1. ...a campaign to beef up security...
     加强安全的运动
  2. Both sides are still beefing up their military strength.
     双方仍在增强各自的军事力量。
  3. ...a beefed up police presence.
     有所增强的警力

英英释义

verb

• make strong or stronger
  1. This exercise will strengthen your upper body
  2. strengthen the relations between the two countries
  Synonym:strengthenfortify

双语例句

• He wanted me to beef up his training program since it was becoming too easy for him.
  他希望我加强训练计划，因为他觉得原计划已变得太容易了。
• We must beef up the army with new young people.
  我们必须招募年轻的新兵以强化军队。
• We should beef up economic and technical cooperation, advance regional trade and investment liberalization, and narrow the development gap among member economies to promote common prosperity.
  我们要加强经济技术合作，推动区域贸易和投资自由化，缩小成员间发展差距，实现共同繁荣。
• Unilever wants to beef up its market share in hair care.
  联合利华希望提升自己在护发品市场的份额。
• They decided to beef up the baseball pitching staff by getting new men.
  他们决定征选新人，来增强棒球队的投手群。
• Thanks to Joe for calling me out and forcing me to beef up the explanation.
  为叫我出来，并迫使我牛肉了感谢乔解释。
• They'll have to beef up their defences.
  他们必须强化他们的辩词。
• E.g.We need to find some new players to beef up the team.
  我们需要找新的球员来加强这个团队。
• Beijing has widened a ban on flying activities to include pigeons and kite flying in its latest efforts to beef up security ahead of the National Day celebrations, police said Tuesday.
  警方于周二称，为加强国庆前安保工作，北京近日已扩大了禁飞范围，鸽子和风筝也在其中。
• You could beef up a little bit, huh?
  你可以更加强壮，哈？