drum up

英 [drʌm ʌp]

美 [drʌm ʌp]

竭力争取（支持）; 兜揽（生意）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 竭力争取(支持);兜揽(生意)
  If youdrum upsupport or business, you try to get it.
  1. The UN secretary-general arrived in Tokyo to drum up support for international peacekeeping...
     联合国秘书长抵达东京竭力为国际维和争取支持。
  2. It is to be hoped that he is merely drumming up business.
     但愿他只是在招揽生意。

英英释义

verb

• gather
  1. drum up support
  Synonym:beat uprally

双语例句

• But it's a lot of work to drum up that much foreign business when you pour lead and melamine into all your products.
  如果你想吸引大批的外国业务，但你的产品中含有铅或三聚氰胺时，你需要做大量的工作。
• To further drum up Chinese pride, the national anthem and31 other patriotic songs were uploaded onto the satellite so it could broadcast the music back to China.
  为了鼓舞中国人的自豪感，国歌和其他31首爱国歌曲被载上卫星可以将音乐回放到中国。
• You were hired to drum up new business, so go and do it.
  公司雇你招徕新业务，你就做你的事好了。
• Let's try to drum up some more business.
  我们再想办法兜揽多些生意。
• Who knows, you might be able to drum up new clients in the soup line.
  你或许能在领汤的队伍里找到新客户，谁知道呢。
• A friend sent me your column about how to drum up new business, and I'm doing everything it suggests, but I also wonder how to make the most of the Internet in getting the word out about my services.
  朋友向我推荐了一篇您的专栏，是有关如何开发新客户的，我都一一照做了。但我还想利用互联网让更多的人了解我所提供的服务。
• Automatic control of hydraulic cylinder pressure fitting can drum up and down about the two forces balance stress.
  自动式油压缸控制贴合压力，可使上下两滚筒左右压力平衡受力。
• I will drum up an excuse for coming to see you next week.
  我要找个借口下周好来看你。
• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to go to the forest to gather wood, saw it, and nail the planks together.
  如果你想要造一艘船，你所需要做的不是敲着鼓把人赶到树林里取来木材，锯木板，然后把木板钉起来。
• I have just started in a new role to drum up clients for a corporate consultancy.
  我刚开始做一份新工作，为一个公司顾问机构招徕客户。