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
- 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。 - Small talk takes up big time, he says, so when people start to tell you about their weekends, cut them off politely with something like I'm in the middle of something, but what's up?
闲聊会占用大量时间，所以当有人开始跟你讲他们的周末，友好的打断他们，比如说我正在忙，有什么事吗？ - Not only will kitchen small talk free up your mind for a few minutes, but it will also help you build positive relationships around the office.
一段茶水间里的小对话不仅可以放松你的身心，而且能够促进你和办公室里同事的关系。 - 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。 - So while other Wall Street honchos talk up a complex new product, if Lebenthal doesn't see it clearly," at the end, I say no. "
因此，当其他华尔街老板讨论复杂的新产品时，如果亚历桑德拉对产品不看好，“最后我肯定会说不。” - Ms Merkel faces domestic political pressure to talk up the credibility that comes with persuading markets that governments will stick to the rules of the growth and stability pact.
默克尔面临国内政治压力，要求她推崇可信度，这种可信度源自说服市场相信：各国政府将坚守《增长与稳定公约》的规则。 - The teacher asked the students to talk up.
老师叫学生说清楚点。 - Bob can really talk up a storm.
鲍柏说起话来真的可以滔滔不绝。 - 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。 - It makes sense for senior US and European officials to talk up the dollar against the euro as they did this week in the financial times especially now that optimism about the US economy makes their arguments plausible.
欧美高官通过言论推高美元兑欧元汇率的做法（正如他们上周在英国《金融时报》所做的那样）当然没错，特别是如今对美国经济的乐观情绪使得他们的主张看似颇有道理。