lift /lɪft/ CET4 TEM4 ( lifting, lifted, lifts )

• 1. 

  V-T If you lift something, you move it to another position, especially upward. 举起; 拿起

  例：

  The colonel lifted the phone and dialled his superior.

  上校拿起电话拨了他上司的号码。

• 2. 

  PHRASAL VERB Lift up means the same as . 举起

  例：

  She put her arms around him and lifted him up.

  她双臂拥住他，把他举起来。

• 3. 

  V-T If you lift your eyes or your head, you look up, for example, when you have been reading and someone comes into the room. 抬起 (眼睛或头)

  例：

  When he finished he lifted his eyes and looked out the window.

  他完成以后抬眼向窗外看去。

• 4. 

  V-T If people in authority lift a law or rule that prevents people from doing something, they end it. 解除 (法令等)

  例：

  The European Commission has urged France to lift its ban on imports of British beef.

  欧盟委员会已敦促法国解除对英国牛肉进口的禁令。

• 5. 

  V-T/V-I If something lifts your spirits or your mood, or if they lift, you start feeling more cheerful. 鼓舞

  例：

  He used his incredible sense of humour to lift my spirits.

  他以不可思议的幽默感鼓舞了我的士气。

• 6. 

  N-COUNT If you give someone a lift somewhere, you take them there in your car as a favour to them. 搭便车

  例：

  He had a car and often gave me a lift home.

  他有一辆汽车，经常让我搭便车回家。

• 7. 

  N-UNCOUNT Lift is the force that makes an aircraft leave the ground and stay in the air. 提升力

  例：

  An aeroplane has to reach a certain speed before there is enough lift to get it off the ground.

  飞机得在达到一定的速度以后，才能有足够的提升力从地面起飞。

• 8. 

  V-T If a government or organization lifts people or goods in or out of an area, it transports them there by aircraft, especially when there is a war. 空运

  例：

  The army lifted people off rooftops where they had climbed to escape the flooding.

  军队把爬到房顶躲避洪水的人们空运走。

• 9. 

  V-T To lift something means to increase its amount or to increase the level or the rate at which it happens. 提高 [英国英语]

• 10. 

  N-COUNT A lift is a device that carries people or goods up and down inside tall buildings. 电梯 [英国英语]

  例：

  We took the lift to the fourteenth floor.

  我们乘电梯到了第14层。

• 11. 

  to lift a finger →see finger