wise up

英 [waɪz ʌp]

美 [waɪz ʌp]

意识到; 觉察到; 开始对…采取适当行动

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 意识到;觉察到;开始对…采取适当行动
  If someonewises upto a situation or state of affairs, they become aware of it and take appropriate action.
  1. Some insurers have wised up to the fact that their clients were getting very cheap insurance...
     一些保险公司已经意识到其客户所得到的保险金非常少。
  2. It's time to wise up and tell those around you that enough is enough.
     现在该觉醒了，告诉你周围的人要适可而止。

英英释义

verb

• get wise to
  1. They wised up to it
• cause someone to become aware of something

双语例句

• Come on, wise up, frank, life isn't like that and you should know it.
  好了，醒悟吧，弗兰克，生活并不像那样，你应该知道这一点。
• Life demands that he wise up!
  生活要求它必须聪明起来。
• It didn't take him long to wise up t what was going on there.
  没有多久，他就看清了那儿到底在搞些什么名堂。
• Everyone approved of this proposal, but an old wise mouse got up and said," That is all very well, but who will tie the bell to the cat?"
  每个老鼠都同意这个建议，但是一只上了年纪的老鼠站起来说：“那谁去给猫戴上铃当呢？”
• It's time to wise up and tell those around you that enough is enough.
  现在该觉醒了，告诉你周围的人要适可而止。
• The later part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions he had contracted in the former.& Jonathan Swift
  一个明智的后半生，是用于矫正在前半生所习染的愚蠢、偏见及谬误的见解。&斯威夫特
• Therefore, architects should wise up the relations and pursue the right innovative direction in choosing the object.
  使建筑师在纷繁复杂的客体选择过程中，能够理清各种关系，追寻正确的创新方向。
• When are they going to wise up to the fact that people aren't interested?
  他们要到什么时候才能明白没人感兴趣呢？
• We citizens need to wise up and "alter or abolish" our federal government by any means necessary.
  我们公民需要明智起来采取任何必要的措施“改变或废除”我们的联邦政府。
• Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
  智慧人积存知识。愚妄人的口速致败坏。