小议与up组成的动词短语

 　在高三课本第十四单元Zoology¹中有这样两句话：

　　1.To find out whether his assumption² was correct，he set up two feeding places.

　　为了查明他的假设是否正确，他建立了两个喂食点。

　　2.Next，Von Frisch and his colleagues set up a feeding place close to the hive.

　　随后，冯·弗里希和他的同事们把喂食点设立在靠近蜂箱点地方。

　　受此启发，总结含up动词短语如下，以飨读者。(注意：要想能够正确使用这些词组，运用自如，必须注意每个词组的多义现象并记准它的含义)

　　1.calup召集，征召(入伍);想起，回忆起;给……打电话

　　1)He was called up and left school last year.

　　去年他就应征入伍离开学校了。

　　2)The sweet singing called up happy memories of the old woman's childhood.

　　甜美的歌声唤起了老太太对童年的美好回忆。

　　3)Don't call anyone up during the night.It's bad manners.

　　不要在晚上给人打电话。不礼貌。

　　2.doup收拾，修理，打扮(漂漂亮亮)，包，扎，扣

　　1)I'll do up your bicycle in no time at all.

　　我立刻给你修自行车。

　　2)His coat was done up.It looked better.

　　他的大衣熨过了，看起来好多了。

　　3)Do up your buttons.

　　把扣子都系上。

　　4)Do up your hair，it's all loose.

　　头发都散了，扎上。

　　3.give up放弃，不再做

　　1)Then he remembered that he had given up smoking.

　　这时他记起他已戒烟。

　　2)She gave up her job to look after her mother.

　　她放弃了工作来照顾妈妈。

　　4.hold up举起，承受……的重量，坚持(顶住)，使不能行驶(前进)

　　1)The chair was too weak to hold up such a fat man.

　　椅子不结实承受不了这么胖的人。

　　2)We were held up for 5 minutes in a traffic jam.

　　在交通阻塞中我们被耽搁了五分钟。

　　3)Thick fog held up a number of trains.

　　浓雾使许多火车停止不动。

　　5.keep up坚持，使斗志不低落，继续，维持

　　1)Keep up!Then you will succeed.

　　坚持!你一定能成功。

　　2)Keep up your spirits.

　　保持斗志不要低落。

　　3)It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone only saying “Yes” and “No”.

　　与只说“是”和“不”的人继续谈话很难。

　　4)I had to run to keep up with the girls.

　　我得跑以跟上女孩子们不落后。

　　6.make up构成，编造，和好，弥补，化装，配制

　　1)Twelve girls make up the performance team.

1 zoology   

n.动物学，生态

参考例句：

• I would like to brush up my zoology.我想重新温习一下动物学。
• The library didn't stock zoology textbooks.这家图书馆没有动物学教科书。

2 assumption   

n.假定，臆断，担任，承担

参考例句：

• We mistook assumption that the price would fall.我们错误地认为价格会下降。
• I would question the validity of that assumption.我会质疑那个假设的正当性。