summon up

英 [ˈsʌmən ʌp]

美 [ˈsʌmən ʌp]

鼓起（勇气）; 使出（力气）; 唤起; 使想起

柯林斯词典

• → see:summon 2
• PHRASAL VERB 唤起;使想起
  If somethingsummons upa memory or thought, it causes it to come to your mind.
  1. The oddest events will summon up memories.
     那些非常稀奇古怪的事情会唤起人们的记忆。

双语例句

• Nothing breeds despair like discouraging results. Let's say that you finally summon up enough courage to talk with someone about your faith, but the person responds with a shrug of indifference.
  没有任何东西比令人沮丧的结果更叫人失望，比方说，你终于鼓起勇气与人分享信仰，但对方却无动于衷。
• She was trying to summon up the courage to leave him.
  当时她试图鼓足勇气离开他。
• Somehow he could never summon up the courage to ask for her hand.
  不知怎的，他总是鼓不起勇气向她求婚。
• The witch claims to be able to summon up the spirits of the dead.
  女巫声称能唤来死人的灵魂。
• I'm trying to summon up the to do some more work.
  我试图攒足力气再多干一些活。
• You should summon up your nerve for the task.
  你要集中精力完成这项工作。
• Audience summon up warm applause when lecturer walk into meeting place.
  当演讲者一走进会场，听众鼓起热烈的掌声。
• They regard Mr Obama as a "transformational" leader& a man who can, with one sweep of his hand, wipe away the sins of the Bush years and summon up the best in their country.
  他们把奥巴马看作是一位“变革的”的领导人，挥一挥手，他就可以把布什当政时的罪恶一扫而光，可以唤起这个国家最美好的部分。
• Cascading dialogs are a diabolical idiom whereby controls, usually pushbuttons, in one dialog box summon up another dialog box in a hierarchical nesting.
  级联对话框是一种糟糕的习惯用法，一个对话框中的控件，通常是按钮。
• The snag is that low growth makes it hard to summon up the political will for reform, which tends to impede growth in the short run before producing a longer-term pay-off.
  麻烦在于，低增长使人很难调动起改革的政治意志&改革倾向于在短期内压抑增长，之后才能带来长期回报。