五分钟英语：UP 的上百用法你知多少？
五分钟英语：UP 的上百用法你知多少？
你也许不知道，UP 很可能是英语最重要的一个单词。
UP ，这微不足道的双字母单词，比任何其他英语单词有更多、更奥妙的含义。
UP 不仅是名词，也是动词，副词，介词，和形容词，商务大词典有近百个 UP 的不同定义，词典的解释横贯 6 栏。
用 UP 我们可以造出很多有趣的句子。下面列出的仅是 UP 几乎无限度的用法的一小部分。
Are you up on “UP”?
UP is simple to understand, right? It normally means towards the sky
or at the top of the list, but it's so easy to be messed UP about UP,
so please listen UP...
When we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
Why do we start a conversation with "What's UP?"
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? We put UP with long-winded
speeches, but sometimes we speak UP. Why are the candidates UP for
election? Why do we wait for the results to be tallied UP to find out
who won?
Why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
Governments like to hush UP bad news but play UP the good news.
Sometimes politicians make UP stories and hope that voters will eat
them UP, though sooner or later they will find out their game is UP .
We google to bone UP on a subject. We call UP our friends,
brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, dish UP a dinner party,
warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. When we overeat we
throw UP.
We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.
At other times this little word has real special meaning. People stand UP
and be counted for a good cause. Other times people stir UP trouble;
line UP for tickets; work UP an appetite; sign UP for a meeting, then make UP
excuses for not going ...
You've been stood UP if your date fails to show UP. After an
argument with your spouse you make UP. If you're sorry, you
fess UP and make it UP to him (or her).
As children we try to measure UP to our parents' expectations. As
parents we expect our children always to be on the UP and UP.
When they are ready for their first car, parents of hard UP children
often pony UP some money to help them along. This very often cheers
them UP.
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special! And
this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is
stopped UP. (But if we have a "stopped up" nose, we say it is
stuffed UP.) We open UP a store in the morning but we close it
UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about the word UP!
To be UP on (it means to be knowledgeable about) the proper
uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 4 pages and can
add UP to almost one hundred definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways
UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP,
you may wind UP with many more than you expected.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun
comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, the earth soaks
it UP. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.
As we begin a New Year, I'm all fired UP. So, are you UP on UP?
Now it's your turn to step UP to the plate and send this on to everyone
you look UP in your address book.
It's now UP to you, so don't screw UP.
Now I think I'll just shut UP.
大家不妨尝试用 25个以不同字母开头的英语单词（A - Z，X 除外）和 UP 连起来造成 25 个双单词短语。Are you UP for it ?
例：Average UP, Build UP, Catch UP, Dish UP,...
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