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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Both sides are still beefing up their military strength.
  双方仍在增强各自的军事力量。
• Thanks to Joe for calling me out and forcing me to beef up the explanation.
  为叫我出来，并迫使我牛肉了感谢乔解释。
• You could beef up a little bit, huh?
  你可以更加强壮，哈？
• 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。
• 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。