queue up

英 [kjuː ʌp]

美 [kjuː ʌp]

排队（等候）; （为得到某机会而）排队，排队等候

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (为得到某机会而)排队，排队等候
  If you say that peopleare queuing up todo or have something, you mean that a lot of them want the opportunity to do it or have it.
  1. People are queueing up to work for me!...
     想为我效力的人可是排着长队呢！
  2. There are a growing number of countries queueing up for membership.
     越来越多的国家争相成为其中的一员。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line up


• See also:queue

英英释义

verb

• form a queue, form a line, stand in line
  1. Customers lined up in front of the store
  Synonym:line upqueue

双语例句

• But to prove you didn't do it out of sheer terror or peer pressure, it pays to queue up straight away and do it all over again.
  不过为了证实你乘坐“震天惊叫”没有一点儿恐惧和同伴的压力，马上排队再来一次是值得的。
• They queue up just to speak to me. This is a clear case of discrimination ( against foreign imports).
  她们排好队只不过是来对我加以申斥。这显然是（对进口货的）排斥。
• Every day I have to queue up at the bus stop to go to work.
  我每天为了上班必须在公共汽车站排队。
• If you want to see the film, you will have to queue up for ticket.
  如果你想去看电影，你只好排队买票。
• Yet institutional and sometimes private investors queue up to back them, desperate for exposure to the latest fashion.
  但热切盼望参与最新时尚投资的机构投资者以及一些私人投资者，却争相为他们提供支持。
• Because cellphone use was not permitted at the facility, students were forced to queue up at one of two public phones.
  由于营地严禁使用手机，学生们只好在唯一的一部公用电话前排队等候。
• Freshmen, eager to get home for the Chinese New Year, queue up at the railway station for hours.
  怀着盼望回家过年的心情，大一新生们在火车站排了几个小时队来买票。
• You could get quite sophisticated here and queue up the updates so they can be re-tried later when the server or network are back up.
  这里可以变得复杂一些并将更新放入队列，这样可以在稍后服务器或网络恢复时重新执行更新。
• Discussing how to make people queue up less in the commercial banks; Queue forme at the door of the bank when the news spread about its possible collapse.
  当消息传出这家银行有可能倒闭时，人们在银行门口排起了长队。
• Thousands of people still queue up to look at these portraits of the famous and the infamous.
  成千上万的人现在仍然排队等待着观看这些流芳百世或遗臭万年的人物的肖像。