drum up

英 [drʌm ʌp]

美 [drʌm ʌp]

竭力争取（支持）; 兜揽（生意）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 竭力争取(支持);兜揽(生意)
  If youdrum upsupport or business, you try to get it.
  1. The UN secretary-general arrived in Tokyo to drum up support for international peacekeeping...
     联合国秘书长抵达东京竭力为国际维和争取支持。
  2. It is to be hoped that he is merely drumming up business.
     但愿他只是在招揽生意。

英英释义

verb

• gather
  1. drum up support
  Synonym:beat uprally

双语例句

• The UN secretary-general arrived in Tokyo to drum up support for international peacekeeping
  联合国秘书长抵达东京竭力为国际维和争取支持。
• Automatic control of hydraulic cylinder pressure fitting can drum up and down about the two forces balance stress.
  自动式油压缸控制贴合压力，可使上下两滚筒左右压力平衡受力。
• He had flown to the north of the country to drum up support for the campaign.
  他飞到该国北方去为竞选争取对这一运动的支持。他们未能激起人们对新政府的热情。
• To further drum up Chinese pride, the national anthem and31 other patriotic songs were uploaded onto the satellite so it could broadcast the music back to China.
  为了鼓舞中国人的自豪感，国歌和其他31首爱国歌曲被载上卫星可以将音乐回放到中国。
• We will soon drum up support for the proposal.
  我们很快会争取到很多人支持这项提议。
• Advertisements should help to drum up some business.
  广告应当有助于兜揽生意。
• Now work has dried up and we are all sitting around pretending to be busy and failing to drum up business.
  现在，没有业务了，我们全都无所事事，假装很忙，却接不到业务。
• He had flown to the north of the country to drum up.
  他飞到该国北方去为竞选争取支持。
• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to go to the forest to gather wood, saw it, and nail the planks together.
  如果你想要造一艘船，你所需要做的不是敲着鼓把人赶到树林里取来木材，锯木板，然后把木板钉起来。
• The President is attempting to drum up public support for his economic program.
  总统正竭力争取公众对他的经济计划予以支持。