jack up
短语<俚>用千斤顶顶起; <口>提高, 增加; <口>把凌乱的东西安排[料理]好
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释义与例句
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1.
To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
He jacked the car up to change the tire
The oil rig can be jacked up higher when the hydraulic legs touch the sea floor.
1987 August, A. K. Hamlin, letter to Homeowners′ Clinic, Popular Mechanics, page 109, How can I secure them without jacking up the whole house to get the bolts in?
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2.
To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
非正式I can't believe they're going to jack up the price of gasoline again — and after they already raised it twenty cents a gallon!
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3.
To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
非正式I'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up.
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To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
澳大利亚 方言 不及物 废旧 及物1881?, Garnet Walch, A Little Tin Plate, Google Books Says I, “Let's jack up, man alive, / An' try further down on the Creek!” / “All right!” says my mate, “but we'll drive / Right an' left to the end of this week.”
1888, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, chapter 19, Google Books Not but what I'd had a lot to bear, and took a deal of punishment before he jacked up.
1900, John Strange Winter, A Self-Made Countess: The Justification of a Husband, page 201 alternate source “I don't think I shall enter for the Point to Point this year, because we're going to jack up.” “Going to jack up what?” asked one, while the others looked up enquiringly. “We're going to jack up the Service. […]”
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To organise something.
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To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
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To improve or embellish on (something).
俚语 及物I jacked up the recipes with some fresh ingredients.
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To refuse to follow an order.
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To criticize, discipline or reprimand.
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词汇关系
词源
* Sense of “hoist with a jack” is from 1885; then, “increase prices, etc.” (1904, American English); both ultimately from noun jack (“mechanical device used to raise heavy objects”) * “Screw up, mess up” sense derived from, or influenced by fuck up, as a bowdlerization; also possibly influenced by jacked up (“high, intoxicated”) * First dialectal idiomatic meaning: “abandon, give up” (1873), possibly a corruption of chuck up, as chuck up the sponge (“give up, concede, give token of submission”)
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