shape up

基本解釋

He will shape up into an excellent basketball player.
他會(huì)成長(zhǎng)為一個(gè)優(yōu)秀的藍(lán)球運(yùn)動(dòng)員。
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"I've got to shape up," you might tell yourself, "although I may appear on the airport security screen only as a blue man in Avatar.
你可能對(duì)自己說："雖然我出現(xiàn)在機(jī)場(chǎng)的安檢熒屏上僅是一個(gè)《阿凡達(dá)》里的藍(lán)人，我也得保持一個(gè)好身材，而且，往底褲里藏東西也毫無作用。"
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is eating up to 9 bananas a day as he tries to shape up for the General Election, an insider revealed.
據(jù)知情者透露，英國(guó)首相布朗為了塑形，為今年的議會(huì)選舉做準(zhǔn)備，正大吃香蕉，一天最多可達(dá)到9根。
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But,Steve Coll at the New America Foundation says the brother remains a problem, and Washington is just giving him more time to shape up.
It's a puzzle piece that looks kind of small but notice there is this little funky shape up top that's the same shape as the blue blocks we've just looked at 'cause you can drag and drop that condition on top of that, and even though there's not much space in the middle here, it turns out what's nice about scratches, it will grow to fill more and more puzzle pieces.
它只是一個(gè)看起來很小的拼圖,上方有一些時(shí)髦的形狀,形狀與我們先前看到的綠色塊一樣,你可以拖拽這些條件語(yǔ)句，盡管中間位置沒有太多的空間，但關(guān)于scratches很好的一點(diǎn)是，如果你不斷地。
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and get in shape and build up endurance.
保持體型，鍛煉毅力。
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It was not just people like Mr Romney who were pushing American companies to shape up.
ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

If something is shaping up, it is starting to develop or seems likely to happen.
If you ask how someone or something is shaping up, you want to know how well they are doing in a particular situation or activity.
If you tell someone to shape up, you are telling them to start behaving in a sensible and responsible way.