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词汇 shake-up
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shake someone up


phrasal verb with shakeverbuk /ʃeɪk/ us /ʃeɪk/shook | shaken
C2
If an unpleasant experience shakes someone up, it makes them feel shocked and upset: 使震惊
I think she was pretty shaken up by the accident.我觉得这次事故让她饱受惊吓。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people sad, shocked and upset
aback
amiss
appal
be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom
bite
bum
gnaw
haunt
heartbreaker
heartbreakingly
hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
nerve
self-lacerating
self-laceration
sensitivity
shake someone out of something
shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom
shattering
tear
toxic

shake something up


phrasal verb with shakeverbuk /ʃeɪk/ us /ʃeɪk/shook | shaken
C1
to cause large changes in something such as an organization, usually in order to make improvements: (通常为作出改进)对…进行大改组(或大调整)
Technological changes have shaken up many industries.技术革新令许多产业发生了重大调整。
The first thing the new chairman of the company did was to shake up the management.公司新任董事长所做的第一件事就是重组管理层。
Several new players have been brought in to shake up the team.引进了几位新队员以重组队伍。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing
about-face
about-turn
alterable
altered
alternate
churn
disturb
make an about-turn
make something into something
malleable
meta
metamorphose
morph
pervert
revolutionize
rollback
rotation
rotational
sanitization
transcribe
shake-up
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /ˈʃeɪk.ʌp/ us /ˈʃeɪk.ʌp/
a large change in the way something is organized: 调整,改组
The company is undergoing a radical shake-up.公司正在进行彻底改组。
The arrival of the new baby caused a thorough shake-up of their family life.新出生的宝宝彻底改变了他们的家庭生活。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Change and changes
adaptive evolution
adjustment
alteration
anti-evolutionism
be ahead of the curveidiom
evolutionary
evolutionism
flatten
flip-flop
fluctuation
recalibration
reconversion
reformation
regime change
reinterpretation
unspooling
unsteadily
unsteady
untick
variation

shake something up | American Dictionary


shake something up


phrasal verb with shakeverbus/ʃeɪk/past tenseshookus/ʃʊk/ | past participleshakenus/ˈʃeɪ·kən/

(CAUSE CHANGE)


to cause changes to something, esp. in order to make improvements:
He’s running for senator as an outsider who will shake things up.

shake someone up


phrasal verb with shakeverbus/ʃeɪk/past tenseshookus/ʃʊk/ | past participleshakenus/ˈʃeɪ·kən/

(UPSET)


to upset someone:
It really shook Gerry up when his best friend moved away.

shake sth up | Business English


shake sth up


phrasal verb with shakeverb[ T ]uk /ʃeɪk/us
to make important changes to a system or organization:
They saw the potential of the Internet to shake up the whole retail sector and change the way it works.
They appointed a new CEO to shake up the organization.
The new head of HR has already started to shake things up.

Examples of shake someone up


shake someone up
Conservatives needed a shake-up of the context before they could successfully introduce an interpretive dimension based on economic criteria.
Most leading legal officials agreed that a more decisive shake-up of the prison system was necessary.
The history of political militancy seen through the eyes of individual teachers starts with the significance of the shake-up provoked by agrarian reform on teachers' politics.
It had an administrative shake-up and a big sales drive.
From the
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If private enterprise had been concerned with a fiasco of this proportion there would have been a major shake-up and heads would have rolled.
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It was a thorough shake-up for those who had been rather dilly-dallying about the matter for the last twelve years.
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You said that you have a total shake-up of the framework programme in mind.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It represents a huge shake-up in the industry, compared with today's difficult conditions.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In fact, what it implies is a complete shake-up of all the great problems which are central to our times.
From the
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That is the drastic export shake-up going on at present.
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But it might entail a considerable shake-up in the tradition and practice of the deployment of the building industry.
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For a long time it has been inevitable, even if we do not like it, that there must come a shake-up in industry.
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I believe that the shake-up should go further.
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The truth of the matter is that the industry is undergoing a major shake-up.
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I welcome the report and the shake-up it has triggered.
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