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

• 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。
• Both sides are still beefing up their military strength.
  双方仍在增强各自的军事力量。
• They'll have to beef up their defences.
  他们必须强化他们的辩词。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Beijing has widened a ban on flying activities to include pigeons and kite flying in its latest efforts to beef up security ahead of the National Day celebrations, police said Tuesday.
  警方于周二称，为加强国庆前安保工作，北京近日已扩大了禁飞范围，鸽子和风筝也在其中。
• 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！