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

• 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。
• 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。
• Then the bar can pump up the oscillations like a parent pushing a child on a swing.
  如此一来，棒子会像父母推动小孩的秋千般，提升恒星振荡。
• He tried to pump up a poem.
  他绞尽脑汁想挤出一首诗来。
• Some more good results will further pump up everything and will show the potential that the team has.
  未来更多的好成绩会对所有事产生鼓励作用，那将展示出车队的潜力。
• 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。
• You need to pump up that tyre.
  你需要给那个轮胎充气。
• 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。
• All of these can pump up your attitude.
  这些都会让你的态度变得积极。