talk up
英 [tɔːk ʌp]
美 [tɔːk ʌp]
夸大; 过分夸奖; 吹捧; 说服…提高出价; 抬高…的价格
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 夸大;过分夸奖;吹捧
If someonetalks upa particular thing, they make it sound more interesting, valuable, or likely than it originally seemed.- Politicians accuse the media of talking up the possibility of a riot...
政治家们谴责媒体夸大了发生骚乱的可能性。 - He'll be talking up his plans for the economy.
他会大肆吹捧自己制定的经济计划。
- Politicians accuse the media of talking up the possibility of a riot...
- PHRASAL VERB 说服…提高出价;抬高…的价格
Totalksomeone or somethingupin negotiations means to persuade someone to pay more money than they originally offered or wanted to.- Clarke kept talking the price up, while Wilkinson kept knocking it down.
克拉克不断把价格向上抬，而威尔金森则不断往下压。
- Clarke kept talking the price up, while Wilkinson kept knocking it down.
双语例句
- The teacher asked the students to talk up.
老师叫学生说清楚点。 - If we talk up the event, people will surely come.
如果我们极力谈论那项活动，人们一定会参加的。 - As the president addressed a domestic audience to sell his deficit plan, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, made three appearances on financial television programmes to talk up the creditworthiness of the US.
就在奥巴马向国内听众兜售其赤字计划同时，美国财长蒂姆盖特纳（TimGeithner）三次登上金融电视节目，鼓吹美国的信誉。 - It is politic for Indian bosses to talk up their ability to invent things that all can afford.
对印度的老板而言，宣扬自己有能力生产每个人都能买得起的产品是个上策。 - Ms Merkel faces domestic political pressure to talk up the credibility that comes with persuading markets that governments will stick to the rules of the growth and stability pact.
默克尔面临国内政治压力，要求她推崇可信度，这种可信度源自说服市场相信：各国政府将坚守《增长与稳定公约》的规则。 - Bob can really talk up a storm.
鲍柏说起话来真的可以滔滔不绝。 - Attempts to talk up the US dollar have been unsuccessful because the markets do not believe interest rates will be raised in the face of a troubling economic outlook.
美国政府放言力挺美元的尝试已告失败，因为市场认为，在经济前景堪忧的形势下，美元利率不会上调。 - Small talk takes up big time, he says, so when people start to tell you about their weekends, cut them off politely with something like I'm in the middle of something, but what's up?
闲聊会占用大量时间，所以当有人开始跟你讲他们的周末，友好的打断他们，比如说我正在忙，有什么事吗？ - But while others talk up the world-changing power of the internet, he is under no illusions that it will do much to improve the lives of the world's poorest.
但当别人津津乐道互联网拥有改变世界的力量时，他却不抱任何幻想，认为互联网对改善世界穷人的生活不会起到太大帮助。 - Analysts talk up this idea of the byod ( bring your own device) to work, but the reality is that for major corporations with global reach, managing the smartphone flavor of the month is still incredibly challenging.
分析师们大谈BYOD（带上自己的设备）去上班这一理念，但现实情况是，对于那些全球性的大公司而言，管理风靡一时的智能手机仍极具挑战性。