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

• We should beef up economic and technical cooperation, advance regional trade and investment liberalization, and narrow the development gap among member economies to promote common prosperity.
  我们要加强经济技术合作，推动区域贸易和投资自由化，缩小成员间发展差距，实现共同繁荣。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I want to beef up my skill.
  我想要加强我的技巧。
• 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。
• Even though you might not have a ton of relevant work experience to put on the resume, you can still beef up your resume by adding personal projects on it.
  即使你没能有丰富的相关工作经历写上简历，你也仍能加上之前做过的个人项目来充实简历。
• 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。
• There have been some changes to the curriculum to reflect growing concerns about unethical behaviour, and to beef up technical courses in subjects such as risk management and financial derivatives.
  它们对整体课程做了一些调整，以回应人们对不道德行为日益加剧的担忧，并加强风险管理和金融衍生品等科目的技术课程。