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

• Amid intensifying competition, Honda has faced pressure to pump up incentives, which increase sales but erode profits and hurt models 'resale values.
  随着市场竞争不断加剧，本田面临着采取促销举措的压力，这种做法虽然提高了销量，但却侵蚀了利润，同时影响了车型的转售价格。
• Policymakers, banking on sustained lower inflation, are now seeking to pump up growth.
  指望通胀持续走低的决策者们，目前正试图推动经济增长。
• I tried to pump up my back tyre.
  我试图给后胎打气。
• The government has budgeted more than$ 23 billion since November to pump up the economy.
  韩国政府从去年11月以来为刺激经济制定了230亿美元的预算拨款。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ben Bernanke may have to pump up the shadow banking system in order to stop manipulating the bond market.
  或许本•伯南克只能选择让影子银行体系膨胀，才能终止对债券市场的操纵。
• I have only drawn three, but now let's pump up the volume.
  我只是这么画，现在让我们增大体积。
• Deming also had the foresight to pump up exploration and solidify the retail business.
  戴明的远见卓识使公司得以加强勘探并巩固了零售业务。
• There they were told to strip naked, jumpsintosa freezing lake and pump up rugby balls underwater.
  在那里，训练者要求队员脱得一丝不挂，跳进冰冷的湖中，在水下给橄榄球打气。