build-up
柯林斯词典
1. N-COUNT A build-up is a gradual increase in something. 逐漸增加
There has been a build-up of troops on both sides of the border. 邊境兩邊的軍隊都在逐漸增兵。
2. N-COUNT The build-up to an event is the way that journalists, advertisers, or other people talk about it a lot in the period of time immediately before it, and try to make it seem important and exciting. 大肆宣傳
The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them. 在學生們一番大造聲勢之後，隨之而來的考試卻出乎意料地平淡。
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build-up (also build up) (build-ups)
剑桥词典
build-up noun [C usually singular] (INCREASE)
an increase , especially one that is gradual
增強，加強；增大
The build-up of troops in the region makes war seem more likely . 在這一地區集結軍隊加大了戰爭爆發的可能性。
build-up noun [C usually singular] (PRAISE)
a situation in which someone or something is praised , advertised , or talked about on the internet, in newspapers , etc.
贊敭；吹捧
The group got a big build-up before their tour , being touted by many as the next Beatles. 在巡廻縯出前對該樂隊進行了大槼模的宣傳，許多人將其吹捧爲新一代甲殼蟲樂隊。
build-up noun [C usually singular] (PREPARATION)
UKthe period of preparation before something happens
事前準備期
There was a lot of excitement in the build-up to the Olympics. 奧運的前期準備工作中有許多讓人激動的事。 返回 build-up