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

• Step up double cropping and livestock-crop integration.
  增加套种和禽畜-作物一体化。
• 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。
• 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。
• So American magazine editors, I plead to you: It's time to step up your game.
  美国的杂志编辑们，我恳求你们：是迎头赶上的时候了。
• I want to step up my English level, but it's too tough.
  我想提高我的英语水平，但是太不容易了。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• We made every effort to step up the building of our artillery and engineer corps.
  我们做了极大努力加速炮兵及工兵部队的建设。
• 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。