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
- Are you looking at may be running a marathon but your scared of the distance, you may have seen so many people fail or just talk it up but never do the run.
您是否正在考虑跑一个马拉松，但是又对这个距离感到恐惧，您可能看到许多人败下阵来，或只是谈论而不参与。 - 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。 - 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。 - Hu apparently felt it was worth having Apple Talk lark up at these conferences.
胡显然认为苹果在会议上讨论Lark是大有裨益的。 - "Talk not up, I am quite sorry." China Ye shrugs shoulders, impartial face in counting to serious, there is no No.2th facial expression.
“谈不上，我非常遗憾。”华烨耸肩，刚正的面庞除了严肃，没有第二号表情。 - 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。 - 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。 - The teacher asked the student to talk up.
老师叫那个学生大声说清楚。 - 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。 - He is afraid to talk up when he disagrees with the teacher.
他不同意老师的意见时，不敢直说。