warming up

基本解释

As busy as the lawyers are, they are only warming up.
根据律师的忙碌度来看，现在他们仅仅在热身。
If you simply want to know if your body burns calories warming up the water, the answer is yes.
如果你只想知道加热水是否可以使身体燃烧卡路里，答案当然是肯定的。
Old habits die hard, and one of the oldest — still rigorously enforced by many drivers — is that "warming up" the car for a few minutes is necessary to avoid some kind of unspecified damage.
老习惯总是很顽固，在那些最老的习惯中，有一个直到现在还被许多司机严格执行的习惯，就是认为有必要将车辆预热几分钟，以避免某些未明的损害。

"It's the first cup of coffee on the dresser when you are in the shower and it's warming up the car before you get into it on a wintry morning."
I keep waiting for somebody-- I think the time is right for somebody to come up with a theory and explain it by global warming.
我一直期待有人-,我认为是时候有人出现,用全球变暖来解释它
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Despite difficulties and setbacks, Millhone is up to the task of warming up long-cold trails.
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That once distant ties between America and India are warming up is indeed cause for celebration.
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