queue up

英 [kjuː ʌp]

美 [kjuː ʌp]

排队（等候）; （为得到某机会而）排队，排队等候

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (为得到某机会而)排队，排队等候
  If you say that peopleare queuing up todo or have something, you mean that a lot of them want the opportunity to do it or have it.
  1. People are queueing up to work for me!...
     想为我效力的人可是排着长队呢！
  2. There are a growing number of countries queueing up for membership.
     越来越多的国家争相成为其中的一员。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line up


• See also:queue

英英释义

verb

• form a queue, form a line, stand in line
  1. Customers lined up in front of the store
  Synonym:line upqueue

双语例句

• As business schools queue up to participate in the FT rankings ( there are 12 new schools this year) newer programmes that are not yet eligible for participation have been launched in countries that, like the US, already have a strong MBA tradition.
  随着商学院争相参与英国《金融时报》的排名活动（今年新增了12所学校），一系列尚无资格参与排名的新项目已在美国等已拥有悠久MBA传统的国家相继开设。
• Yet institutional and sometimes private investors queue up to back them, desperate for exposure to the latest fashion.
  但热切盼望参与最新时尚投资的机构投资者以及一些私人投资者，却争相为他们提供支持。
• They queue up just to speak to me.
  她们排好队只不过是来对我加以申斥。
• Patient: ( To the nurse) Excuse me, where do I queue up to register?
  病人：（对护士）劳驾，我挂号该排哪一队？
• Do we have to queue up for the check?
  我们需要排队托运行李吗？
• Every day I have to queue up at the bus stop to go to work.
  我每天为了上班必须在公共汽车站排队。
• All threads that go to sleep from calling pthread_mutex_lock() on an already-locked mutex will "queue up" for access to that mutex.
  对已锁定的互斥对象上调用pthreadmutexlock（）的所有线程都将进入睡眠状态，这些睡眠的线程将“排队”访问这个互斥对象。
• The violence erupted just as visitors began to queue up to ascend the famous New York skyscraper.
  枪击事件发生时，正有游客排队等待进入参观这座纽约市著名的摩天大楼。
• Please queue up and stand clear of the platform screen door.
  请按箭头排队候车，勿依靠屏蔽门。
• Discussing how to make people queue up less in the commercial banks; Queue forme at the door of the bank when the news spread about its possible collapse.
  当消息传出这家银行有可能倒闭时，人们在银行门口排起了长队。