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

• They'll have to beef up their defences.
  他们必须强化他们的辩词。
• 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。
• E.g.We need to find some new players to beef up the team.
  我们需要找新的球员来加强这个团队。
• It demonstrates China's ambition to beef up overseas oil supplies.
  它展现了中国增强海外石油供应的雄心。
• He added if he himself does not have time to write, he might use a recorder to record his own life for someone else to prepare the scripts and beef up, and it will be in both English and Chinese.
  他补充说，如果他自己没有时间写，他可能用录音机录自己的生命为别人准备的剧本和牛肉，并会以英文和中文。
• 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。
• Chinese officials would probably not only beef up enforcement and penalties, but also try to create a demand for regulation by training business managers about the importance of product safety.
  中国官员可能不仅会加强执行和惩罚力度，还会设法通过对企业管理人员培训产品安全的重要性，建立对监管的需求。
• 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。
• Want to beef up the sound of your exhaust, look no further, we can assist you!
  想要提高您的汽车尾气的声音。我们能协助您！
• We must beef up the army with new young people.
  我们必须招募年轻的新兵以强化军队。