build
v. 建造; 創立; 發展; 逐漸增強
n. 體形; 身材
If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
Developers are now proposing to build a hotel on the site...
開發商現在建議在這個地方蓋一座賓館。
The house was built in the early 19th century...
這所房子建於19世紀初期。
If you build something into a wall or object, you make it in such a way that it is in the wall or object, or is part of it.
If the TV was built into the ceiling, you could lie there while watching your favourite programme.
如果把電視嵌入天花板,你就可以躺在那裡欣賞你最喜歡的節目了。
If people build an organization, a society, or a relationship, they gradually form it.
He and a partner set up on their own and built a successful fashion company...
他和同伴自己創業,創辦了一家成功的時裝公司。
Their purpose is to build a fair society and a strong economy...
他們的目的是要建立一個公平的社會和一個強大的經濟體。
If you build an organization, system, or product on something, you base it on it.
We will then have a firmer foundation of fact on which to build theories...
那樣我們將會獲得一個建立理論所需的更為牢固的事實基礎。
The town's nineteenth-century prosperity was built on steel.
這個城市19世紀的繁榮是建立在鋼鐵工業基礎上的。
If you build something into a policy, system, or product, you make it part of it.
We have to build computers into the school curriculum...
我們必須把計算機納入到學校的課程中。
How much delay should we build into the plan?
我們應該為這個計劃預留多少富餘的時間?
To build someone's confidence or trust means to increase it gradually. If someone's confidence or trust builds, it increases gradually.
The encouragement that young boys receive builds a greater self-confidence...
小男孩受到的鼓勵會增強他們的自信心。
Diplomats hope the meetings will build mutual trust...
外交官們希望會議能增進彼此的信任。
If you build on the success of something, you take advantage of this success in order to make further progress.
Build on the qualities you are satisfied with and work to change those you are unhappy with...
以自己滿意的優點為發展基礎,努力改變自己不滿意的地方。
The new regime has no successful economic reforms on which to build.
新政權沒有成功實施可賴以為繼的經濟改革。
If pressure, speed, sound, or excitement builds, it gradually becomes greater.
Pressure built yesterday for postponement of the ceremony...
要求推遲儀式的壓力昨天進一步增大。
The last chords of the suite build to a crescendo.
組曲的最後和音部分漸入高潮。
Someone's build is the shape that their bones and muscles give to their body.
He's described as around thirty years old, six feet tall and of medium build...
他被描述成一個30歲左右、6英尺高、中等身材的人。
The authority of his voice is undermined by the smallness of his build.
瘦小的身形削弱了他聲音中的權威感。
1. constitution of the human body
2. alternative names for the body of a human being;
1. make by combining materials and parts;
2. form or accumulate steadily;
3. build or establish something abstract;
4. improve the cleansing action of;
5. order, supervise, or finance the construction of;
6. give form to, according to a plan;
7. be engaged in building;
8. found or ground;
9. bolster or strengthen;
10. develop and grow;
build, construct, found, erect, establish, set up
這些動詞均有"建設,建立,建造"之意。
build in 或 build into
建造,建立:作為一個整體來建設或包括在內
build on 或 build upon
依靠,指望:以…為基礎
build up
擴大,集結,支援:逐步或分階段的發展或增加
積累或收集
支援,增加,樹立
在(一個地區)蓋滿樓房
build one's hopes up
對…抱有更大希望(變得更加樂觀)
built on sand
(喻)不切實際;不牢固;不穩妥
It costs much to build this kind of building.
這種建築造價較高.
I took it for granted that we should build new roads.
我們應該修造新的公路,我認為這是理所當然的.
Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
請木匠在牆上嵌幾個碗櫥.
The engineer had a bold plan to build a bridge over the English Channel.
這個工程師有一個大膽的計劃:在英吉利海峽上建一座橋樑.
We made an appeal to the villagers for money to build the bridge.
為建造這座橋,我們呼籲村民捐款.