line up• They lined the prisoners up and shot them.• The guard ordered us to line up by the wall.• The horses were being lined up for the start of the race.• He lined the dolls up from tallest to shortest.• He lined up the plates on the table in front of them.• Christopher and the other children lined up to receive their awards.
got ... lined up• Look what we've got lined up.• Somehow Price had found their place, and Corporal Petrossian with his mania for detail had got the platoon lined up correctly.
1DSthe players in a sportsteam who play in a particular game 〔出賽的〕運動員陣容
This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).
這是他進入首發陣容的第一場比賽。
2GROUP OF PEOPLEa group of people, especially performers, who have agreed to be involved in an event 全體參與人員〔尤指表演者〕
The line-up included top bands Prodigy and Radiohead.
參加演出的有頂級樂隊“神童樂隊”和“電台司令”。
3ARRANGE A MEETING, EVENT ETCa number of events or programmes arranged to follow each other 一系列項目[節目]
a wonderful line-up of programmes for Christmas and the New Year
聖誕節和新年的一系列精彩節目
4.especially American EnglishAmESC a row of people who stand in front of a witness to a crime, who is then asked if he or she recognizes any of them as the criminal 〔待目擊者辨認的〕一排嫌疑犯SYN British English identification parade
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line-up• This was an unfamiliarForestline-up.• CBS has a great Wednesday night line-up.• Andy hadn't a care in the world as he joked with a star-packed line-up of players.• Second placed Sutton also name their most powerfulline-up at home to Wavertree, for whom skipper Ian Morley returns.• It's all part of an incredible £40,000 prizeline-up.• In the evening, the names of those who had been picked from the line-up were read out over the camptannoy.• Cordell may not be in the line-up for tonight's game.• I stuck it till my teeth began to scream and then I ducked out of the line-up and no one noticed I'd gone.• The line-up of performers includes Cher and Garth Brooks.• Just look at this winningline-up!
starting line-up• In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire.• Bjornbye was immediately drafted into the party and could make a surpriseappearance in the starting line-up at left back.• And he found himself in the starting line-up when topscorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu.• Was this his first match in the starting line-up?• Andy Payton was in the starting line-up with Stuart Ripley on the substitutes' bench.• And a hamstringinjury has put skipper Ellery Hanley out of the starting line-up against Rovers.
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phrasal verbphr v
a)ARRANGE A GROUP OF THINGS OR PEOPLEif people line up, or if you line them up, they stand in a row or line, or you make them do this(使)排成行
Line up, everybody!
大家排好隊!
line somebody ↔ up
He lined us all up in the corridor.
他讓我們全體在走廊裏排好隊。
b)line something ↔ up to arrange things in a row 排好某物
I lined the bottles up on the sideboard.
我把瓶子放在餐具櫃上排好。
c)line something ↔ up to move one thing so that it is in the correctposition in relation to something else 把某物對齊
line something ↔ up with
The windows should be lined up with the door frame.
窗戶應該與門框對齊。
d)ARRANGE A MEETING, EVENT ETC line somebody/something ↔ up to arrange for something to happen or for someone to be available for an event 安排某人/某事
We’ve lined up some excellent speakers for tonight.
line up• They lined the prisoners up and shot them.• The guard ordered us to line up by the wall.• The horses were being lined up for the start of the race.• He lined the dolls up from tallest to shortest.• He lined up the plates on the table in front of them.• Christopher and the other children lined up to receive their awards.
got ... lined up• Look what we've got lined up.• Somehow Price had found their place, and Corporal Petrossian with his mania for detail had got the platoon lined up correctly.