词汇 | shake somebody/something ↔ up |
释义 | shake somebody/something ↔ upshake somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v a) SHOCKto give someone a very unpleasant shock, so that they feel very upset and frightened 使震惊;使震动;使不安 She was badly shaken up by the accident. → shaken 这次事故把她吓坏了。 b) CHANGE/MAKE something DIFFERENTto make changes to an organization in order to make it more effective 调整,改组〔机构等〕 SYN overhaul the government’s plans to shake up the educational system → shakeup 政府改革教育体系的计划 Examples from the Corpus shake up• Dole is no fresh breeze blowing in from the hinterland to shake things up.• In the second half Hereford shook themselves up.• The storm shakes me, like the scare that shook me up a year ago, tearing me from the commonplace.• The town needs a feisty, right-wing tabloid to shake it up, to have a debate.• But he seemed to want to shake things up, to outrage me.• Not so much the opposition - what shook me up was to see children being used in the front line by protestors.• Carlton then took a small scoopful of concrete and shook it up with alcohol to see how much air was dissolved. → shake somebody/something ↔ up at shake1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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