rev up

英 [rev ʌp]

美 [rev ʌp]

（使）加快转速; （使）加速

柯林斯词典

• → see:rev 1
• PHRASAL VERB-ERG (使)更激烈;(使)更活跃
  If yourevsomethingup, or if itrevs up, it becomes more intense or more active.
  1. The temptation to rev up the arms race with high-tech weapons is especially dangerous...
     通过研发高科技武器加速军备竞赛的诱惑尤其危险。
  2. Now he plans to rev up publicity with a regional media campaign.
     现在他准备通过开展地区性的媒体活动加大宣传力度。

英英释义

verb

• increase the number of rotations per minute
  1. rev up an engine
  Synonym:rev
• speed up
  1. let's rev up production
  Synonym:step up

双语例句

• Coastal contacts, one of the largest online contact-lens retailers in North America, came out of its two-day planning session at a loss for how to rev up growth.
  作为北美最大的网上隐形眼镜零售商之一，CoastalContacts在结束两天的策略规划议程时，对如何加速业务增长仍无头绪。
• Stay away from stimulating or self-help books though; they rev up your brain.
  远离那些激励的书籍和自主手册，因为它们会让你的大脑再度工作起来。
• Don't rev ( up) the engine so hard.
  不要使发动机加速这么快。
• Drinking green tea or oolong tea offers the combined benefits of caffeine and catechins, substances shown to rev up the metabolism for a couple hours.
  喝绿茶和乌龙茶能提供咖啡因和儿茶素联合的功效，这类物质可以提高机体代谢维持几个小时。
• Rev it up to warm the engine.
  让发动机转起来预热。
• After a meal, fatty acids enter cells, triggering the receptors to rev up the body's energy-burning motor.
  在吃完一顿饭后，脂肪酸会进入细胞触发这种受体提高身体能量消耗速度。
• He's noticed that some workers tend to sleep poorly on Sunday night, feeling wired as they rev up for the week or rehearsing the next day's agenda in their heads.
  他注意到，一些职场人士往往在周日晚上睡得不好，亢奋地思虑一周的事情或是在脑子里演练第二天的日程。
• The huge stimulus package may rev up the impressive construction boom, but there is no guarantee that people will buy property until they think prices have bottomed out.
  巨额的经济刺激方案或许能重启建筑繁荣，但并不能保证人们会购买房产，除非他们认为价格已经触底。
• The idea is to rev up the body's "good" fat to help it burn off the "bad" fat.
  方法就是增加人体的“好”脂肪含量，以帮助它燃烧去掉“坏”脂肪。
• It turns out that nicotine can rev up brain cells that normally signal people to stop eating when they're full, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
  《科学》杂志在周五刊登了研究者的发现：原来尼古丁能够让大脑细胞加速运转，通常这样会让大脑发出信号，让人们在吃饱的时候不再进食。