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

• Apple hires Burberry CEO to spruce up its retail operation
  苹果雇用巴宝莉首席执行官加强其零售业务
• 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。
• You really must spruce up a bit, albert.
  阿尔培，你可是得把自己搞得整洁一点了。
• 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。
• 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。
• What you've seen so far is a good start, but you have plenty of ways to spruce it up.
  迄今为止，您已经有了一个很好的起点，但是要做得完美，还有很长的一段路要走。
• It has also acquired a team that can help it spruce up its own photo-sharing offerings.
  它也获得了可以帮助改善它自己的照片分享功能的团队。
• He went to spruce himself up before dinner.
  用餐前他去打扮了一下。
• Spruce yourself up a fit-you look a mess.
  把你自己打扮得整洁漂亮一点，你的样子很邋遢。
• 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？