| 词汇 | whip somebody/something ↔ up |
| 释义 | whip somebody/something ↔ upwhip somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v a) CAUSEto try to make people feel strongly about something 鼓动，激起 whip up interest/opposition/support etc They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book. 他们会想方设法激起人们对某本书的兴趣。 an attempt to whip up the masses 煽动民众的企图 b) DFCMAKEto quickly make something to eat 匆匆做好〔饭菜〕 Mother was in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cakes. 母亲在厨房里赶做几个蛋糕。 Examples from the Corpus whip up interest/opposition/support etc• Here, too, came Gladstone and other politicians to whip up support.• Any debate will persuade them they're whipping up interest in fiction.• Starting in 1967, we tried hard to whip up interest in the robots among potential customers, but with little success. → whip somebody/something ↔ up at whip1(2) |
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