| 词汇 | lock up |
| 释义 | lock uplock up phrasal verbphr v a) SHUT/CLOSEto make a building safe by locking the doors, especially at night 〔尤指在夜间〕锁好门窗 I’ll leave you to lock up. 我让你来锁门。 lock something ↔ up Don’t forget to lock up the warehouse. 别忘了锁上仓库的门。 b) lock something ↔ upSHUT/CLOSE to put something in a safe place and lock the door, lid etc 把某物锁起来 SYN lock away c) lock somebody ↔ up to put someone in prison 把某人关进监狱 SYN lock away Rapists should be locked up. 强奸犯应该被关进监狱。 d) be locked up (in something)MONEY if your money is locked up, you have put it into a business, investment etc and cannot easily move it or use it 〔钱〕被搁死（在某事上） Examples from the Corpus lock up• He always keeps his desk locked up.• You should take basic precautions like locking your car up.• It costs $23,000 a year to lock up an adult.• Rapists deserve to be locked up for the rest of their lives.• Locking up more criminals has helped to reduce the crime rate and produce safer streets.• I had locked up my office for the night and gone home. be locked up (in something)• That's what Lee had gone home to check, that Caspar was locked up.• All the back-benchers lit Parliament were locked up along with the six ministers at State House.• I was locked up for nine years, you know that?• Much more was locked up in that house than the storeroom at its core.• His fa-ther was locked up somewhere in a place called Applegate.• It was locked up somewhere round at the back. → lock up at lock1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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