beef up

英 [biːf ʌp]

美 [biːf ʌp]

增加; 加强; 改进; 提高

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 改善；加强；改进；提高
  If youbeef upsomething, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
  1. ...a campaign to beef up security...
     加强安全的运动
  2. Both sides are still beefing up their military strength.
     双方仍在增强各自的军事力量。
  3. ...a beefed up police presence.
     有所增强的警力

英英释义

verb

• make strong or stronger
  1. This exercise will strengthen your upper body
  2. strengthen the relations between the two countries
  Synonym:strengthenfortify

双语例句

• You could beef up a little bit, huh?
  你可以更加强壮，哈？
• There are three main areas where the company has faltered – or is still under-invested – and may want to beef up: social, payments and cloud services.
  谷歌蹒跚不前、投资不足和希望充实的三个主要领域分别是：社交网络、支付业务和云服务。
• He wanted me to beef up his training program since it was becoming too easy for him.
  他希望我加强训练计划，因为他觉得原计划已变得太容易了。
• They decided to beef up the baseball pitching staff by getting new men.
  他们决定征选新人，来增强棒球队的投手群。
• I think I can beef up the reception a bit.
  我要增强一下信号接收。
• It's also a bid by the China Mobile and China Unicom to beef up their ability to tap into the quickly rising amounts of revenue being generated by consumer spending on mobile applications, in particular games.
  这也是中国移动和中国联通壮大实力以进入收入迅速上升的一个市场的一次尝试。这一市场的收入来自消费者在移动应用上的支出，其中尤以游戏为主。
• Unilever wants to beef up its market share in hair care.
  联合利华希望提升自己在护发品市场的份额。
• Mr Obama has called for member countries to beef up the IMF to help it combat the global downturn.
  奥巴马呼吁各成员国为imf增资，以帮助其对抗全球衰退。
• The government decided to beef up its air force by buying a number of new fighters.
  该政府决定购买一批新战机，以增强其空军实力。
• Banks will also be required to beef up their risk management practices.
  该计划还将要求各银行加强其风险管理措施。