build-up
n. [军](战斗部队的)集合,集结; 蓄积,积累; 形成; 增强
A build-up is a gradual increase in something.
There has been a build-up of troops on both sides of the border...
边境两边都在集结兵力。
The disease can also cause a build up of pressure in the inner ear leading to severe earache.
该疾病还会引起内耳的压力增加,从而导致剧烈的耳痛。
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.
We should wait at least until winter before we start the build-up to Christmas...
我们至少要等到冬天再开始着力营造圣诞节的气氛。
The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them.
在学生们一番忙碌准备之后,随之而来的考试却出乎意料地平淡。
The students in middle schools should build up a solid foundation in English.
中学生学习英语时应打下牢固的基础.
Once you have had a cold you build up immunity to that particular virus.
你一旦患上感冒,你的身体就会产生对付那种病毒的免疫力.
The facts added together to build up a theory which was indisputable.
这些事实汇集在一起足以构成一条不容置疑的理论.
We must build up our country with industry and frugality.
我们必须勤俭建国.
Don't let your resentment build up.
别让你的怨恨郁积起来.