talk up

英 [tɔːk ʌp]

美 [tɔːk ʌp]

夸大; 过分夸奖; 吹捧; 说服…提高出价; 抬高…的价格

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 夸大;过分夸奖;吹捧
  If someonetalks upa particular thing, they make it sound more interesting, valuable, or likely than it originally seemed.
  1. Politicians accuse the media of talking up the possibility of a riot...
     政治家们谴责媒体夸大了发生骚乱的可能性。
  2. He'll be talking up his plans for the economy.
     他会大肆吹捧自己制定的经济计划。
• PHRASAL VERB 说服…提高出价;抬高…的价格
  Totalksomeone or somethingupin negotiations means to persuade someone to pay more money than they originally offered or wanted to.
  1. Clarke kept talking the price up, while Wilkinson kept knocking it down.
     克拉克不断把价格向上抬，而威尔金森则不断往下压。

双语例句

• Talk it UP Every time you pick Up the phone, stand up and walk around.
  每次聊天，你拿起电话，站立起来并且徘徊。
• Attempts to talk up the US dollar have been unsuccessful because the markets do not believe interest rates will be raised in the face of a troubling economic outlook.
  美国政府放言力挺美元的尝试已告失败，因为市场认为，在经济前景堪忧的形势下，美元利率不会上调。
• Don't hesitate to talk up if you think you are right.
  如果你认为你是对的，就不要犹豫，爽爽快快地讲好了。
• As the president addressed a domestic audience to sell his deficit plan, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, made three appearances on financial television programmes to talk up the creditworthiness of the US.
  就在奥巴马向国内听众兜售其赤字计划同时，美国财长蒂姆盖特纳（TimGeithner）三次登上金融电视节目，鼓吹美国的信誉。
• He is afraid to talk up when he disagrees with the teacher.
  他不同意老师的意见时，不敢直说。
• If we talk up the event, people will surely come.
  如果我们极力谈论那项活动，人们一定会参加的。
• Clarke kept talking the price up, while Wilkinson kept knocking it down.
  克拉克不断把价格向上抬，而威尔金森则不断往下压。
• "Talk not up, I am quite sorry." China Ye shrugs shoulders, impartial face in counting to serious, there is no No.2th facial expression.
  “谈不上，我非常遗憾。”华烨耸肩，刚正的面庞除了严肃，没有第二号表情。
• Small talk takes up big time, he says, so when people start to tell you about their weekends, cut them off politely with something like I'm in the middle of something, but what's up?
  闲聊会占用大量时间，所以当有人开始跟你讲他们的周末，友好的打断他们，比如说我正在忙，有什么事吗？
• It makes sense for senior US and European officials to talk up the dollar against the euro as they did this week in the financial times especially now that optimism about the US economy makes their arguments plausible.
  欧美高官通过言论推高美元兑欧元汇率的做法（正如他们上周在英国《金融时报》所做的那样）当然没错，特别是如今对美国经济的乐观情绪使得他们的主张看似颇有道理。