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hot up phrasal verb with hotverbuk /hɒt/ us /hɑːt/-tt- UKinformal If an event or situation hots up, it becomes more exciting and more things start to happen: (事件或情况)加剧,变得更加激烈 A few days before the elections, the pace began to hot up.选举前几天,节奏开始加快。 The competition is really hotting up now.现在比赛已进入白热化状态。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Increasing and intensifying accretion accumulate accumulative accumulatively add fuel to the fireidiom blaze fade go into orbitidiom go up growing growingly heighten inflation mushroom ratchet something up/down re-escalate re-escalation reach a crescendo redouble stake |