step up

英 [step ʌp]

美 [step ʌp]

增加（数量）; 提高（速度、强度等）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 增加(数量等);提高(速度、强度等)
  If youstep upsomething, you increase it or increase its intensity.
  1. He urged donors to step up their efforts to send aid to Somalia...
     他敦促各捐赠方加快速度将援助物资送往索马里。
  2. Security is being stepped up to deal with the increase in violence...
     正在加强安保工作以应对日益增多的暴力活动。
  3. There are reports of stepped-up fighting in El Salvador.
     有报道称萨尔瓦多的战斗已经升级。

英英释义

verb

• increase in extent or intensity
  1. The Allies escalated the bombing
  Synonym:escalateintensify
• speed up
  1. let's rev up production
  Synonym:rev up
• make oneself visible
  1. Young people should step to the fore and help their peers
  Synonym:come to the forestep forwardcome forwardstep to the forecome out

双语例句

• In the course of the second half of the year, the economy should then step up a gear.
  在今年下半年中，欧元区经济增速将上一个台阶。
• The meeting ended with a pledge to step up cooperation between the six states of the region.
  会议以承诺加快这一地区六国间的合作而结束。
• I evaluate all this and start sending out impulses to step up production of gastric juices and saliva.
  我核计了这一切，开始传出搏动以加快生产胃液和唾液。
• Security is being stepped up to deal with the increase in violence
  正在加强安保工作以应对日益增多的暴力活动。
• We should further promote dialogue and reconciliation and step up the solution of regional hot issues.
  我们要进一步促进对话与和解，推动地区热点问题的解决。
• Step up double cropping and livestock-crop integration.
  增加套种和禽畜-作物一体化。
• They should step up exchanges and cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit.
  他们应该加强交流与合作的基础上，平等和互利。
• When your time comes, you either step up or you look for a new career.
  你的时机来了，你可以进入高层，或者开始一段新生活。
• We'll do all we can to step up our aid to our fraternal countries.
  我们将尽力加强对兄弟国家的援助。
• Shake it off and take a step up.
  抖掉身上的土，向上走一步。