spruce up

英 [spruːs ʌp]

美 [spruːs ʌp]

装扮; 打扮

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 装扮;打扮
  If somethingis spruced up, its appearance is improved. If someoneis spruced up, they have made themselves look very smart.
  1. Many buildings have been spruced up...
     很多大楼都被装扮一新。
  2. In the evening we spruced ourselves up a bit and went out for dinner.
     到了晚上，我们稍微收拾打扮了一番，然后出去吃晚餐。

英英释义

verb

• dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
  1. He spruced up for the party
  Synonym:spruceslick upsmarten up
• make neat, smart, or trim
  1. Spruce up your house for Spring
  2. titivate the child
  Synonym:sprucetitivatetittivatesmarten upslick upspiff up

双语例句

• Besides the holly and ivy, pine or spruce trees are set up in people's houses and decorated with tinsel, electric lights, and baubles;
  除了冬青树和常青藤外，松树和云杉也会被人们放置在房子里，在上面装饰上金属条、电灯泡、小玩意等；
• They've employed an advertising agency to spruce up the company image.
  他们雇用了一家广告代理机构，来改善公司的形象。
• You can now spruce up your handset with number of third party applications.
  现在，您可以美化你的第三方应用软件的手机号码。
• This change took place in part because doctors wanted to spruce up their dubious reputation.
  这种改变部分是因为医生想要竭力净化自己不很好的声誉。
• Competition is driving the major hotel brands to spruce up.
  同业的竞争促使主要的品牌旅馆翻新门面。
• But what do you do if you want to spruce up the appearance of the HTML that is output by the transformation?
  但是如果需要整理转换后输出的HTML的外观该怎么办？
• He went to spruce himself up before dinner.
  用餐前他去打扮了一下。
• And while it may be easy to get carried away with edible gardening, don't forget to plant a few flowers to spruce up the look of your garden and also attract bees to help pollinate your food crops.
  而在一段时间里管理一个菜园子可能并不难，但可别忘了种上一些花草打扮打扮你的菜园，这样同时也能引来蜜蜂帮助你的作物传播花粉。
• In response, hotel owners have been keen to open more units and spruce up their image.
  作为回应，酒店所有者正在积极寻求开张一些新的店面以促进他们的企业形象。
• Some even scoff at the store ´ s efforts to spruce up its image.
  有人甚至把沃尔玛改善公司形象的努力也拿来大加嘲讽。