build-up
[NOUN]
又拼作 buildup
又拼作 build up
build-ups
1. [C 可数名词] 逐渐增加
A build-up is a gradual increase in something.
双语例句
例：There has been a build-up of troops on both sides of the border.
边境两边都在增加兵力。
2. [C 可数名词] 大肆宣传
The build-up to an event is the way that journalists, advertisers, or other people talk about it a lot in the period of time immediately before it, and try to make it seem important and exciting.
双语例句
例：The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them.
在学生们一番大造声势之后，随之而来的考试却出乎意料地平淡。
NOUN. 名词
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