stack up
phrasal verbstack up
- to keep increasing in quantity until there is a large pile, a long line, etc.
积聚成一大堆（或一长排等） - Cars quickly stacked up behind the bus.
公共汽车后面的汽车很快排成了长龙。 - During the strike, refuse has been stacking up in the streets.
罢工期间，垃圾堆积在街道上。
- Cars quickly stacked up behind the bus.
- (used especially in questions or in negatives) to compare with somebody/something else; to be as good as somebody/something else
（与其他人或事物）相比；比得上 - Let's try him in the job and see how he stacks up.
咱们让他干这活儿试试，看看他比别人干得怎么样。 - stack up against somebody/something A mobile home simply doesn't stack up against a traditional house.
活动房屋怎么也比不上传统的房屋。
- Let's try him in the job and see how he stacks up.
- (used especially in negatives) to seem reasonable; to make sense
看来合理；讲得通；合乎情理 - That can't be right. It just doesn't stack up.
那不可能是对的，简直不合情理。
- That can't be right. It just doesn't stack up.