even up

英 [ˈiːvn ʌp]

美 [ˈiːvn ʌp]

使平衡; 使势均力敌

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 使平衡;使势均力敌
  Toeven upa contest or game means to make it more equally balanced than it was.
  1. The nation's electronics industry made important strides this year to even up its balance of trade...
     该国的电子产业今年取得了重大进步，平衡了贸易差额。
  2. I would like to see the championship evened up a little bit more.
     我希望冠军赛更加势均力敌一点。

英英释义

verb

• even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
  Synonym:square upjog
• adjust for
  1. engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
  Synonym:compensatecounterbalancecorrectmake upeven outeven off

双语例句

• I feel he has even counted up the hours he has left.
  我想他连还能活几个小时都计算过了。
• Despite the financial crisis Chinese butterfly farmers said that business had even picked up during the financial crisis.
  尽管处于金融危机中，但养殖蝴蝶的中国农户说，他们的生意在金融危机期间甚至比以前更好。
• You might even set up really fun regular outings.
  你甚至可以制订一个真正有趣的定期外出计划。
• Even up the edges of the two sheets of paper before you cut them.
  先把两张纸取齐了再裁。
• The Wild Wooders ran in terror, escaping through the doors and windows, and even up the chimneys& anywhere to get away from those terrible sticks.
  这些野树林动物吓得到处跑，从门那儿，从窗户那儿，有的甚至从烟囱那儿&任何能躲开那些可怕的棍子的地方。
• I loved it at first – I had a job that paid well, and some of my designs even ended up on store shelves.
  最初，我很喜欢那份工作&工资优厚，而且我的一些设计还登上了商店货架。
• I know that you have even put up with having his wife around, which must have been a strain on you.
  我也知道你甚至还容忍他的妻子守他在身边。这对你一定是个严峻的考验吧。
• He did not even look up when I took my seat beside him.
  当我在他身旁坐下来的时候，他甚至连头都没有抬一下。
• It did not even show up on the radar screens of foreign policy experts and political gurus.
  甚至没有出现在外交政策专家和政治专家们的雷达屏幕上。
• Almost anything that moves and will go into that mouth, even up to half their own body size, is potential prey.
  几乎所有能动的东西都会进到它们口中，即使体型有它们一半大，也是它们潜在的猎物。