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

• 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。
• 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。
• They have a scone-like consistency and as well as a popular breakfast item, they're also used to bulk up goulash meals.
  类似于烤饼并作为普遍的早餐项目，它们也被用于扩充菜炖牛肉餐。
• JP Morgan Chase's plan to buy Bank One highlights the desire for financial services companies to bulk up their retail banking businesses, but what does it mean for investment banking?
  摩根大通收购第一银行的计划突出表明，金融服务公司渴望扩充零售银行业务，但这对投资银行业务又意味着什么呢？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Since BNP Paribas has no intention of turning itself into a boutique, the bank will have to either bulk up or get out.
  由于巴黎银行无意将自己转变成一个精品银行，该银行要么必须发展壮大，要么就只能退出市场。
• If I thought a role demanded it and I wanted it, I would bulk up.
  如果我觉得角色需要，我会让自己壮起来。
• In the so-called Hierarchical Model of galaxy formation, galaxies are supposed to slowly bulk up their stars over time by absorbing tiny pieces of galaxies, rather than in one big burst.
  关于星系的形成，所谓的“等级理论模型”中说：随着时间的推移，星系应该通过吸收星系中的零星物质来慢慢地扩大恒星的数目，而不是猛然间大规模地诞生。