bulk up

英 [bʌlk ʌp]

美 [bʌlk ʌp]

（使）加大（或加厚）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （使）加大（或加厚）
  If someone or somethingbulks uporbulks out, they become bigger or heavier.
  1. Use extra vegetables to bulk up the omelette...
     再加些蔬菜使煎蛋看上去量更大。
  2. Holyfield has bulked up to 210 pounds using weights.
     霍利菲尔德体重增到了210磅。

双语例句

• Even P& G felt the need to bulk up by acquiring Gillette as a counter to retailers that exerted buying power against branded goods.
  就连宝洁都觉得有必要通过收购吉列（gillette）来增强实力，以对付那些利用购买力打压品牌商品的零售商。
• While some reports show that some illegal steroids may help athletes bulk up and train harder, human growth hormone is not one of them, the report in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests.
  在一些报告中称，某些违禁类固醇可以帮运动员快速增强运动能力且能更加刻苦的训练，报道在内科年鉴中称生长激素就是其中之一。
• Investment banking cuts would account for the bulk of up to 2 00000 jobs disappearing across the entire financial services sector this year, according to Experian, the research agency.
  据研究机构益百利（experian）统计，在今年整个金融服务领域所裁撤的20万个职位中，投行裁员将占主要部分。
• It was at this time that the prospect of a short crop sent the prices of bulk Bordeaux up on the market-place.
  就是在这个时候可能减产的信号拉高了波尔多期酒的市场价格。
• His money would bulk up to a fortune if he saved everything he could.
  他如果尽量节约的话，就可以积累一笔钱财。
• Save every cent you can and by the end of the year your savings will bulk up to a handsome sum.
  把可以积蓄的每分钱都积蓄起来，到年终时，你的储蓄数目就很可观了。
• Vivendi has slimmed down in order to bulk up in future and says the American hedge fund just wants to dismantle the group and lay hands on its cash.
  维旺迪的瘦身是为了未来的壮大，它称舍恩菲尔德的美国对冲基金只是想拆解该集团并拿到钱。
• As a result, Ozgul and colleagues propose, grass has become available for more months of the year, meaning the Soay sheep do not have to bulk up as much.
  奥兹格尔及同事提出，结果绵羊在一年当中更多的月份里可以吃到青草，这就意味着索艾羊不必象以往那样吃得膘肥体壮。
• Several large hedge funds have begun to bulk up their presence in the region.
  数家大型对冲基金已开始扩展亚洲地区的业务。
• Shell, which has pursued arrow for about two years, is also developing a project in Queensland but it needs arrow to bulk up its gas reserves.
  在过去两年中一直试图收购arrow的壳牌在昆士兰也有自己的项目，但收购arrow可以使它拥有更多的煤层气储量。