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词汇 pump-up
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pump someone up


phrasal verb with pumpverbuk /pʌmp/ us /pʌmp/
informal
to make someone feel more confident or excited: 为打气,使鼓起勇气
He was offering them advice and trying to pump them up.他给他们提建议,努力给他们打气。
The players were pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem before the game.比赛前,运动员们唱起了国歌,给他们自己打气。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people excited and interested
absorbed
animate
arouse someone's curiosity
be someone's bagidiom
bedazzle
breathe
interest someone in something
intoxicate
intrigue
occupy
overexcite
stir
stretch
sweep
sweep someone along
talk something up
tantalize
the Thames
thrill
whip

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Confidence & self-assurance

pump something up


phrasal verb with pumpverbuk /pʌmp/ us /pʌmp/
to fill something with air using a pump: 给…充满气,给…打气
Have you pumped up the balloons yet?你给气球充气了吗?
I must pump the tyres up on my bike.我必须给我的自行车打足气。
informal
to increase something by a large amount: 大量增加
The US was able to pump up exports.美国有能力大量增加出口。
Let's pump up the volume a bit!我们把音量调大一点吧。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enlarging and inflating
augmentation
balloon
bloat
broaden
build (someone/something) up
bulk
expand
explosively
flare
fluff something up
implacably
inflation
lengthen
puff
puffed
reinflate
reinflation
scale something up
stretch
uninflated

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Increasing and intensifying

pump up someone | American Dictionary


pump up someone


phrasal verb with pumpverb[ T ]us/pʌmp/
infml
to make someone more confident or more enthusiastic:
Myerson spent a lot of time trying to pump up his partners.

pump sth up | Business English


pump sth up


phrasal verb with pumpverb[ I or T ]uk /pʌmp/us
to increase the price or the amount of something:
For corporations these measures can reduce costs and pump up the bottom line.
They have simply pumped up prices to cover the additional costs.
The new beach development plans could pump up tourist revenue in the summer.
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