build-up

1. N-COUNT A build-up is a gradual increase in something. 逐漸增加

There has been a build-up of troops on both sides of the border. 邊境兩邊的軍隊都在逐漸增兵。

2. N-COUNT 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. 大肆宣傳

The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them. 在學(xué)生們一番大造聲勢之后，隨之而來的考試卻出乎意料地平淡。