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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The UN launched a major airlift and tried to drum up donor support.
  联合国发起了空中救援，并大力争取援助方的支持。
• The purpose of his trip was to try to drum up some support for his ideas.
  他这次旅行的目的就是为了他的主张呼吁一些支持。
• But it's a lot of work to drum up that much foreign business when you pour lead and melamine into all your products.
  如果你想吸引大批的外国业务，但你的产品中含有铅或三聚氰胺时，你需要做大量的工作。
• The President tried to drum up congressional support for his energy policy.
  总统试图取得国会对其能源政策的支持。
• You were hired to drum up new business, so go and do it.
  公司雇你招徕新业务，你就做你的事好了。
• The department store is offering reductions on many types of merchandise, in an effort to drum up business.
  这家百货店为努力招徕生意将许多商品减价出售。
• 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。