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

• 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。
• Government reforms to gas pricing models for exploration and production companies have encouraged them to step up their activities.
  政府对勘探及生产企业天然气定价模式的改革，鼓励了这些企业加紧勘探及生产活动。
• 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。
• But imagine that she should step up and down the two floors of steep stairs everyday.
  想像一下，她每天要上下两个楼层陡峭的楼梯。
• One will help Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and India step up enforcement.
  一个将帮助不丹、孟加拉、尼泊尔和印度加强实施工作。
• Rich governments and donors need to step up.
  富有的政府和捐赠者需要加快脚步。
• But different players step up – maybe it is not one player but we share the responsibility.
  但不同的球员站了出来&也许无法一对一的顶替，但我们分担了责任。
• 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。
• Now that you have mastered these two basic exercises, you're ready to step up your game.
  现在你已经掌握了这两种基本的锻炼，你可以加强你的游戏。
• 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。