Somebody like Art Tatum can make me sit up and take notice.

像 Art Tatum 这样的人可以让我坐起来注意。

If Maria succeeded, then everyone would sit up and take notice.

【sit】假如玛丽亚成功了，大家马上就会注意起来。

The expression " to sit up and take notice" means to pay attention to something, to focus on something.

“to sit up and take notice” 这个表达的意思是注意某事， 专注于某事。

Somebody like Art Tatum can make me sit up and take notice, but some music, like rap, isn't very musical and I can't learn anything from it.

像Art Tatum这样的人能吸引我的注意，令我猛地端坐起来，但是有些音乐，比如说唱，音乐性不是很强，我从那上面什么也学不到。

That places it firmly in the medium-sized category and is more than enough to make most policymakers sit up and take notice.

这使其稳居中等规模，足以让大多数决策者刮目相看。

Yeah, I think it was calculated to make the biggest impact so that the powers that be will sit up and take notice.

荷马：是的，我认为它是为了产生最大的影响而设计的， 这样当权者就会站起来注意。

But for people who want to grab our attention, such as advertisers, they have to think of clever ways to make us sit up and take notice of them.

但对于那些想抓住我们注意力的人们（例如广告商）来说，他们就需要找到能引起我们注意的好办法。

And now, fast-forward a year and a half into this regular exercise program and I noticed something that really made me sit up and take notice.

现在， 快进到这个定期锻炼计划的一年半之后，我注意到了一些真正让我坐起来注意的事情。

He was already starting it, but this time I was going to do something so incredible that even he would have to sit up and take notice.

他已经开始了，但这一次我要做的事情是如此令人难以置信，以至于连他也不得不坐起来并注意到。

Um, we are definitely working in that direction, but I think as the world needs to sit up and take notice that this demand is loud because it's a requirement.

嗯，我们肯定正在朝这个方向努力，但我认为世界需要站起来并注意到这种需求很大， 因为它是一项要求。

Here we have a film about an imagined African kingdom that celebrates black innovation and black culture and authenticity, but told using an Afrofuturist aesthetic, and it just made people sit up and take notice.

在这里， 我们有一部关于想象中的非洲王国的电影，它颂扬黑人创新、黑人文化和真实性，但使用非洲未来主义美学来讲述， 它只是让人们刮目相看。

The transportation workers are trying to make a statement to – they're trying to communicate a message to – the powers that be, so that these people in authority " will sit up and take notice."

运输工人正试图向当权者发表声明——他们正试图向当权者传达信息， 以便这些当权者“会站起来注意” 。