rough-up

基本解釋

Host cities have long been accused of sanitizing rough areas in the run-up to the Olympics.
在鄰近奧運(yùn)會(huì)期間，主辦城市因給簡(jiǎn)陋地區(qū)進(jìn)行消毒而一直被指責(zé)。
Substitute “houses” for “assets” in the paragraph above, and you might be reading a rough description of the blowing-up and bursting of America’s property bubble.
將上段的“資產(chǎn)”替換為“住房”，那你正在閱讀的可能是對(duì)于美國(guó)房產(chǎn)泡沫擴(kuò)大并最終爆裂的粗略描述。若再添上“股份”，那你可能是回到了20世紀(jì)20年代。
Two classrooms had temporary screens set up, with the rough-hewn wooden desks piled up outside, under a tree.
兩間教室臨時(shí)搭建起熒幕，外面的樹底下堆放了粗削的木桌。

So did Danica Patrick, who had a rough follow-up to her breakthrough week at the Daytona 500.
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But perhaps most important has been the weak GDP growth that has kept consumer spending at a low level, a particularly rough condition for smaller, start-up businesses.
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These days well-traveled visitors have begun to absorb its allure--rough old Maremma has been primping up.
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