blow up

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blow up• Some problem had blown up and the Prime Minister wanted to see me.• We also used it to blow up bunkers and similar things.• He blew up five city blocks, of course.• A brisk wind was blowing up from the Tail of the Bank.• And when that song blew up, I was shocked.• A bomb blew up near his truck.• The gunners had to blow up some of their own artillery pieces to keep them from being turned on themselves.• At 0400 she blew up with the loss of fifty-seven of the precious tanks and ten of the even more precious Hurricanes.

blow up ... balloon• But there are two ways of blowing up a balloon.• There was a game where you blew up balloons and sat on them.• Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.• Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.• You look like you have blown up like a balloon and you feel that you are a complete dieting failure.

blow at• Both cars blew up at Aintree, but the start money saw us through.• Privately, Diamandopoulos, as mercurial as he is erudite, is said to have blown up at critics.• She simply blew up at him.• Well, she blew up at me last Saturday for no reason.

blow up in somebody’s face• It was kind of funny watching the presentation blow up in Harry's face.• Kristin knew that if anyone found out, the whole thing could blow up in her face.• But I also fear that this encryption stuff is so powerful it could blow up in my face.• Having opted for a formation that he thought would beat Leicester, David O Leary saw it blow up in his face.• Liable blow up in their faces.• Not only could be, but would be, and the whole thing would blow up in my face.• Nothing of its kind had ever been done before, and it could have blown up in his face.• When the clothes iron blows up in your face.• Auditors some-times miss big potential problems that blow up in the face of bondholders.

blow up

phrasal verbphr v

a) DESTROYEXPLODEto destroy something, or to be destroyed, by an explosion 炸毀，炸得粉碎

The plane blew up in midair.

飛機在半空中爆炸了。

blow something ↔ up

Rebels attempted to blow up the bridge.

叛亂分子企圖炸毀橋梁。

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b) TTCAIR blow something ↔ up to fill something with air or gas 給某物充氣[打氣]

Can you blow up this balloon?

你能把這個氣球吹起來嗎？

We’ll blow the tyres up.

我們會把輪胎充好氣。

c) IMPORTANTDANGEROUSif a situation, argument etc blows up, it suddenly becomes important or dangerous 〔形勢、爭論等〕變得嚴峻

A crisis had blown up over the peace talks.

和談過程中爆發了一場危機。

d) TCP blow something ↔ up if you blow up a photograph, you make it larger 放大〔照片〕 SYN enlarge

e) ANGRY informal to become very angry with someone 大發雷霆

Jenny’s father blew up when she didn’t come home last night.

珍妮昨晚沒回家，她的父親大爲光火。

I was surprised at the way he blew up at Hardy.

他對着哈迪發火的樣子讓我很吃驚。

f) DNWEATHERif bad weather blows up, it suddenly arrives 〔惡劣天氣〕突然來臨

It looks as if there’s a storm blowing up.

看來暴風雨即將來臨。

g) blow up in somebody’s face if something you have done or planned to do blows up in your face, it suddenly goes wrong 〔事情〕出岔子；〔計劃等〕突然告吹

One of his deals had just blown up in his face.

他的一樁生意好端端地就告吹了。

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→ blow up at blow1(PHRASAL VERB)

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