round up
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释义与例句
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1.
To collect or gather (something) together.
习语 及物The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.
They rounded up a group of experts and got their opinions.
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To collect or gather (something) together.
To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.
习语 及物In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.
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To collect or gather (something) together.
To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.
习语 非正式 及物During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.
Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.
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To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
及物The total is $24,995 — let's round it up to $25,000.