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单词 run-up
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Definition of run-up in English:

run-up

noun ˈrʌnʌpˈrə ˌnəp
  • 1The period preceding a notable event.

    (重大事件的)序幕,前奏;前导期,预备期

    a programme aimed at lowering unemployment in the run-up to the next election

    下次选举准备期内旨在降低失业率的计划。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The group sold more than 100,000 model train sets in the run-up to the festive period, outperforming sales of its Scalextric slot racing cars.
    • She claimed that the intelligence services had been bugging his private phone for years, especially in the pivotal period in the run-up to the Iraq war last year.
    • He, who has to fit his gala work around a full time day job, has called on people to lend a hand in the run-up to the event, on gala day and with clearing up afterwards.
    • The decision to send the jets, famous for their vertical take-offs and landings, comes as Afghanistan faces a tense period in the run-up to elections.
    • Police arrested 51 people in the run-up to the event and a further three people were detained yesterday morning after red paint was thrown over a walkway leading to the centre.
    • But they were kept guessing by the weather until the day itself, with heavy rain falling during the days in the run-up to the event.
    • This tracks with commentators who predict a major event in the run-up to the November 2004 American elections.
    • Cottage Garden Herbs, Ballyconnell Lodge, is offering two creative courses in the run-up to the holiday period, he writes.
    • Staff at Luton Airport are to strike in the run-up to the holiday period in a dispute over pay cuts.
    • It is believed incidents of car crime increase over the winter because of the dark nights and cars containing Christmas shopping in the run-up to the festive period.
    • The report outlined donations declared by both past and present politicians in the county, covering the period in the run-up to the general election in May of 2002.
    • The events in the run-up to the attack are as yet unclear.
    • With the seven others, he had worked night and day in the run-up to the event to ensure that nothing off the park was allowed to detract from what turned out to be a dazzling display of football.
    • He has already started to plan fundraising events in the run-up to this year's ambitious challenge.
    • His account of the events in the run-up to Singapore's Separation from Malaysia and independence in 1965 stirred up bad blood across the Causeway.
    • The Bolton Evening News will be covering the race in the run-up to the event, on the day and afterwards with our media partners Tower FM.
    • In one case, all punishments were stopped for a two-month period in the run-up to last November's Stormont elections.
    • Hotels and guest houses in the city have been reporting brisk business in the run-up to the event with many visitors combining a visit to Railfest with an extended stay in York.
    • In the run-up to the festive period, St Ann's Hospice is holding a number of events to raise extra money for the charity which has to raise £5.6m this year.
    • His dish, which has a working title of Chicken Mandela, will be on the menu at a series of Commonwealth Games lunches to be held for VIPs in the run-up to the event.
  • 2An act of running briefly to gain momentum before performing a jump in athletics, bowling in cricket, etc.

    (田径运动中跳高、跳远或板球的投球等之前的)助跑

    high jumper Steve Smith will use his shortened five-stride run-up
    the bowler started his run-up
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A former West Indies player taught me my run-up back in 1999, at Kensington Cricket Club.
    • He was shorter, but as athletic as him and had one of the smoothest run-ups in the game.
    • It was very windy down there at the start of the competition and my run-up was all over the place.
    • These are days when there is more rhythm and flow to his bowling, his run-up and action blending better.
    • She will be watching her rivals to such an extent that she could be the person who starts the crowd clapping when one of them is about to take a run-up for a high or long jump.
    1. 2.1 The strip of ground behind the wicket on which the bowler runs before bowling.
      助跑区(投球手投球之前在三门柱后面助跑的地带)
      the start was delayed because the bowlers' run-ups were wet
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But because the bowlers' run-ups and the close-fielding positions were dangerously soft, both agreed play should be cancelled.
      • He moved to make the rule for a six a hit over the boundary not out of the ground and he pioneered the use of sawdust for bowlers run-ups.
      • The umpires decided at 3pm that conditions were impossible for play with a saturated outfield and wet run-ups.
      • While the riskiest feature of this week's historic one-day series - the drop-in pitch - already appears a success, the patchy and damp outfield, bowlers' run-ups and the lighting had the players wary.
      • The Umpires decided the bowlers run-ups were unsafe.
  • 3Golf
    A low approach shot that bounces and runs forward.

    〔高尔夫〕(打近球穴的)低滚球,击低近球

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Arm speed refers to the speed with which you pull the disc across your body when you execute the run-up.
    • A lot of players are already using the 3-wood from the fringe and on run-up shots.
  • 4An act of running an engine or turbine to prepare it for use or to test it.

    (发动机或涡轮机的)预备性运转;测试运转,试运行

    other than for the first flight of the day, engine run-ups are not deemed necessary
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The pilot would then start the Allison, perform the briefest of engine run-ups, and then get the aircraft into the air as quickly as possible.
    • Crew chiefs were finishing pre-flighting all the aircraft scheduled for the mission that day and any spares selected in case any ship aborted their pre-flight run-ups.
    • During the engine run-up, the passenger noticed that the checklist was not used.
    • During initial takeoff, Redman who was in the front seat, performed a normal engine run-up and brake release.
    • One example was his suggestion on how one person could orchestrate engines run-ups so they could all be done at the same time instead of by the individual crew chiefs on their own timetable.
    • After he shut down the engine in the run-up area, I should have returned to base and incompleted the event.
    • After Sludge 1 and 2 had executed their formation take-offs, Sludge 3 and 4 began their engine run-ups.
    • Together, we made a careful preflight and engine run-up.
    • It was a beautiful day as I made a circular motion with my index finger giving the flight the engine run-up signal.
    • When we're doing maintenance on an airplane, we may need to go on the runway three or four times a day for engine run-ups.
    • This aircraft was abandoned and sank after the Auxiliary Power Plant caught fire during one of these run-ups.
    • If you have been taxiing under conditions conducive to icing, do a static run-up prior to takeoff to assure normal engine operation.
    • There was not a spare so one had to be machined - so much for the evening engine run-up.
    • Engine run-ups are a safety requirement on all aircraft that have undergone extended periods of maintenance to determine that all engine components are functioning properly and safely.
    • After everyone was strapped in and engines started, a thorough run-up produced three thumbs up and we were blasting down the Chino runway.
    • When we were cleared for takeoff, the flight lead checked us in on the new frequency from the tower and gave the flight a verbal engine run-up command.
    • During engine run-up, the #1 engine experienced a bearing failure, which necessitated an engine change.
    • He made a careful engine run-up with all instruments in the green, repeated his instructions to me and took the Active, number two in trail.
    • After the new propeller was installed, an engine run-up was conducted with no mechanical anomalies.
    • Turner checked out the plane, started the engine, and after a run-up, took off.
  • 5A marked rise in the value or level of something.

    急剧上升;迅速增长

    a sharp run-up of land and stock prices

    土地和股票价格的猛涨。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There was a time when [investors] were so enthusiastic about the run-up in technology and not really focused on what companies were really about.
    • These flows fueled an expansion of bank lending and credit creation within the countries, and often a run-up in the prices of property and financial assets.
    • It also serves to highlight how the behavior of the banking system during the asset-price run-up may influence subsequent outcomes.
    • DCF can also prompt investors to sell, which might mean they miss those big share price run-ups that can be so profitable (provided the shares are sold at the peak).
    • This time, the run-up in prices was unprecedented.
    • The run-up over the next few weeks takes the stock price to a lofty level of $15.99, a 62% increase.
    • Gold, and gold stocks, have enjoyed a rapid run-up since May.
    • In the last two months, Ventura County's scorching housing market has gotten so hot that some veteran agents say it matches or surpasses the real estate run-ups of the late 1980s.
    • Promoters of these enterprises suggest investors will profit from the run-up in oil prices.
    • That leaves some energy market experts to believe that the previous run-up in oil prices was largely driven by speculators trying to make a fast buck in the commodities markets.
    • We've had an eight-month run-up in the stock market this year, far ahead of the real evidence that the economy was recovering.
    • It is formed when a run-up in a security's price levels off and is followed by a series of lower highs and relatively equal lows.
    • After such an impressive run-up, you'd suspect that REITs would be on the pricey side, relative to their earnings - and you'd be correct.
    • Unfortunately, after going through a big run-up in the 1990s, Schwab shares were sinking along with the rest of the market.
    • That leaves some energy market experts to believe the previous run-up in oil prices was largely driven by speculators trying to make a fast buck in the commodities market.
    • The impact of the market run-up would be even more dramatic for a worker who already had significant assets to place in the stock market in 1982.
    • If there ever was a reason in the ordinary investor's mind to buy back into the dollar, it would be the current run-up in economic figures here in the US.
    • Cheap stock fueled the valuation run-up: As the cash portion has risen, prices have dropped.
    • And the companies behind the latest sell-off are not the pie in the sky dotcom ventures that fuelled the frenzied run-up in the Nasdaq index earlier this year.
    • It's surprising that people investing in some firms that have had huge run-ups don't know what they do, just that they're gone up 100 percent.

Rhymes

sun-up, ton-up

Definition of run-up in US English:

run-up

nounˈrə ˌnəpˈrə ˌnəp
  • 1The period preceding a notable event.

    (重大事件的)序幕,前奏;前导期,预备期

    an acrimonious run-up to legislative elections
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Bolton Evening News will be covering the race in the run-up to the event, on the day and afterwards with our media partners Tower FM.
    • The report outlined donations declared by both past and present politicians in the county, covering the period in the run-up to the general election in May of 2002.
    • In the run-up to the festive period, St Ann's Hospice is holding a number of events to raise extra money for the charity which has to raise £5.6m this year.
    • But they were kept guessing by the weather until the day itself, with heavy rain falling during the days in the run-up to the event.
    • The group sold more than 100,000 model train sets in the run-up to the festive period, outperforming sales of its Scalextric slot racing cars.
    • The events in the run-up to the attack are as yet unclear.
    • She claimed that the intelligence services had been bugging his private phone for years, especially in the pivotal period in the run-up to the Iraq war last year.
    • In one case, all punishments were stopped for a two-month period in the run-up to last November's Stormont elections.
    • Staff at Luton Airport are to strike in the run-up to the holiday period in a dispute over pay cuts.
    • Police arrested 51 people in the run-up to the event and a further three people were detained yesterday morning after red paint was thrown over a walkway leading to the centre.
    • The decision to send the jets, famous for their vertical take-offs and landings, comes as Afghanistan faces a tense period in the run-up to elections.
    • It is believed incidents of car crime increase over the winter because of the dark nights and cars containing Christmas shopping in the run-up to the festive period.
    • He has already started to plan fundraising events in the run-up to this year's ambitious challenge.
    • He, who has to fit his gala work around a full time day job, has called on people to lend a hand in the run-up to the event, on gala day and with clearing up afterwards.
    • With the seven others, he had worked night and day in the run-up to the event to ensure that nothing off the park was allowed to detract from what turned out to be a dazzling display of football.
    • His dish, which has a working title of Chicken Mandela, will be on the menu at a series of Commonwealth Games lunches to be held for VIPs in the run-up to the event.
    • Hotels and guest houses in the city have been reporting brisk business in the run-up to the event with many visitors combining a visit to Railfest with an extended stay in York.
    • His account of the events in the run-up to Singapore's Separation from Malaysia and independence in 1965 stirred up bad blood across the Causeway.
    • Cottage Garden Herbs, Ballyconnell Lodge, is offering two creative courses in the run-up to the holiday period, he writes.
    • This tracks with commentators who predict a major event in the run-up to the November 2004 American elections.
  • 2An act of running briefly to gain momentum before performing a jump in track and field or other sports.

    (田径运动中跳高、跳远或板球的投球等之前的)助跑

    high jumper Steve Smith will use his shortened five-stride run-up
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She will be watching her rivals to such an extent that she could be the person who starts the crowd clapping when one of them is about to take a run-up for a high or long jump.
    • It was very windy down there at the start of the competition and my run-up was all over the place.
    • A former West Indies player taught me my run-up back in 1999, at Kensington Cricket Club.
    • He was shorter, but as athletic as him and had one of the smoothest run-ups in the game.
    • These are days when there is more rhythm and flow to his bowling, his run-up and action blending better.
  • 3Golf
    A low approach shot that bounces and runs forward.

    〔高尔夫〕(打近球穴的)低滚球,击低近球

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Arm speed refers to the speed with which you pull the disc across your body when you execute the run-up.
    • A lot of players are already using the 3-wood from the fringe and on run-up shots.
  • 4An act of running an engine or turbine to prepare it for use or to test it.

    (发动机或涡轮机的)预备性运转;测试运转,试运行

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the engine run-up, the passenger noticed that the checklist was not used.
    • It was a beautiful day as I made a circular motion with my index finger giving the flight the engine run-up signal.
    • Turner checked out the plane, started the engine, and after a run-up, took off.
    • One example was his suggestion on how one person could orchestrate engines run-ups so they could all be done at the same time instead of by the individual crew chiefs on their own timetable.
    • Crew chiefs were finishing pre-flighting all the aircraft scheduled for the mission that day and any spares selected in case any ship aborted their pre-flight run-ups.
    • He made a careful engine run-up with all instruments in the green, repeated his instructions to me and took the Active, number two in trail.
    • This aircraft was abandoned and sank after the Auxiliary Power Plant caught fire during one of these run-ups.
    • The pilot would then start the Allison, perform the briefest of engine run-ups, and then get the aircraft into the air as quickly as possible.
    • During initial takeoff, Redman who was in the front seat, performed a normal engine run-up and brake release.
    • There was not a spare so one had to be machined - so much for the evening engine run-up.
    • After the new propeller was installed, an engine run-up was conducted with no mechanical anomalies.
    • After he shut down the engine in the run-up area, I should have returned to base and incompleted the event.
    • Together, we made a careful preflight and engine run-up.
    • When we're doing maintenance on an airplane, we may need to go on the runway three or four times a day for engine run-ups.
    • When we were cleared for takeoff, the flight lead checked us in on the new frequency from the tower and gave the flight a verbal engine run-up command.
    • If you have been taxiing under conditions conducive to icing, do a static run-up prior to takeoff to assure normal engine operation.
    • After everyone was strapped in and engines started, a thorough run-up produced three thumbs up and we were blasting down the Chino runway.
    • During engine run-up, the #1 engine experienced a bearing failure, which necessitated an engine change.
    • Engine run-ups are a safety requirement on all aircraft that have undergone extended periods of maintenance to determine that all engine components are functioning properly and safely.
    • After Sludge 1 and 2 had executed their formation take-offs, Sludge 3 and 4 began their engine run-ups.
  • 5A marked rise in the value or level of something.

    急剧上升;迅速增长

    a sharp run-up of land and stock prices

    土地和股票价格的猛涨。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cheap stock fueled the valuation run-up: As the cash portion has risen, prices have dropped.
    • Promoters of these enterprises suggest investors will profit from the run-up in oil prices.
    • It also serves to highlight how the behavior of the banking system during the asset-price run-up may influence subsequent outcomes.
    • Unfortunately, after going through a big run-up in the 1990s, Schwab shares were sinking along with the rest of the market.
    • The run-up over the next few weeks takes the stock price to a lofty level of $15.99, a 62% increase.
    • In the last two months, Ventura County's scorching housing market has gotten so hot that some veteran agents say it matches or surpasses the real estate run-ups of the late 1980s.
    • If there ever was a reason in the ordinary investor's mind to buy back into the dollar, it would be the current run-up in economic figures here in the US.
    • And the companies behind the latest sell-off are not the pie in the sky dotcom ventures that fuelled the frenzied run-up in the Nasdaq index earlier this year.
    • It's surprising that people investing in some firms that have had huge run-ups don't know what they do, just that they're gone up 100 percent.
    • There was a time when [investors] were so enthusiastic about the run-up in technology and not really focused on what companies were really about.
    • The impact of the market run-up would be even more dramatic for a worker who already had significant assets to place in the stock market in 1982.
    • We've had an eight-month run-up in the stock market this year, far ahead of the real evidence that the economy was recovering.
    • That leaves some energy market experts to believe the previous run-up in oil prices was largely driven by speculators trying to make a fast buck in the commodities market.
    • That leaves some energy market experts to believe that the previous run-up in oil prices was largely driven by speculators trying to make a fast buck in the commodities markets.
    • This time, the run-up in prices was unprecedented.
    • These flows fueled an expansion of bank lending and credit creation within the countries, and often a run-up in the prices of property and financial assets.
    • After such an impressive run-up, you'd suspect that REITs would be on the pricey side, relative to their earnings - and you'd be correct.
    • It is formed when a run-up in a security's price levels off and is followed by a series of lower highs and relatively equal lows.
    • DCF can also prompt investors to sell, which might mean they miss those big share price run-ups that can be so profitable (provided the shares are sold at the peak).
    • Gold, and gold stocks, have enjoyed a rapid run-up since May.
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