| 单词 | hold up |
| 释义 | → See Verb tableExamples from the Corpushold up• They should have finished that job on Friday - what's holding them up?• Why don't we use some of these pieces of wood to hold it up?• Her stubbornness on this one issue is holding the whole deal up.• He was arrested and charged with holding up a cab driver.• The peace talks are being held up by continued fighting on the border.• I won't hold you up - I can see you're in a hurry.• We got held up in traffic and missed the show.• We can't knock that wall down. It's the one that holds up the house.• These poles hold up the outer part of the tent.• The men who held up the store were wearing Halloween masks.• Get a move on, you two! You're holding up the whole queue!• The only thing holding the wall up was a frail-looking section of scaffolding.• Protesters held up work on the new road.ˈhold-up noun [countable] 1 DELAYa situation that stops something from happening or making progress 延误，耽搁 SYN delay traffic hold-ups on the highway 公路上的交通堵塞 Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time. 尽管偶尔有些阻滞，我们还是准时完成了。2 informalSTEAL an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon 持械抢劫 SYN robbery a bank hold-up 银行持械抢劫案 → hold up at hold1Examples from the Corpushold-up• It came about one day that he had no money to play, and he committed a hold-up in a store.• A man was shot dead in a hold-up at a downtown bank.• People are afraid to use the buses because of armed hold-ups.• The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters.• At Trenton there was one last hold-up.• There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail.• It was an uneasy switch from the difficulties of homeowners to a light-hearted story about hard-up baboons staging hold-ups of passing cars.• Hakkar admitted he took part in the hold-up, but denied having fired a gun.From Longman Business Dictionaryhold up phrasal verb [intransitive]FINANCE if a price, value etc holds up, it stays at or near the same level, especially when it was expected to fallCopper prices held up surprisingly well during the recession. → hold→ See Verb tablehold-upˈhold-up noun [countable]TRANSPORTMANUFACTURING a delay, for example in transport or productionmotorway holdupsˈhold-up nounChineseSyllable a something Business from Corpus stops situation that happening |
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