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

• She began to put the house straight, making beds and washing dishes, cleaning and tidying; but she could summon up no enthusiasm for it.
  她开始无精打采地收拾房间；叠被子，洗碗碟，又扫又擦。
• 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。
• He could not summon ( up) the courage to tell them about it.
  他鼓不起勇气告诉他们那件事。
• Suddenly, with that disgusted air which he knows so well how to summon, he picks himself up and adjusts his clothes.
  突然，他直起身子，整整衣服，脸上一副十分厌烦的样子。
• If you can summon up some forgiveness and compassion now, you have a chance to really start to move on from what was undeniably in parts a very tough time.
  如果你能散布宽容与同情，你有机会实实在在地在那些不可否认异常艰难的岁月中前进。
• They are all the same. To whom can I open my foolish heart, which disdains tears yet cannot summon up laughter?
  但所谓朋友皆如是，我能告谁以我的不屑流泪，而又无力笑出的痴呆心境？
• I couldn't summon up the energy.
  我无法打起精神来。
• 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。
• 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。
• Queerly enough the harder he tried to summon up her face in his thoughts, the vaguer it became.
  奇怪的是，他越想要想起她的容貌她的容貌就变得更模糊了。