lift

1. V-T If you lift something, you move it to another position, especially upward. 擧起; 拿起

The colonel lifted the phone and dialled his superior. 上校拿起電話撥了他上司的號碼。

2. PHRASAL VERB Lift up means the same as . 擧起

She put her arms around him and lifted him up. 她雙臂擁住他，把他擧起來。

3. V-T If you lift your eyes or your head, you look up, for example, when you have been reading and someone comes into the room. 擡起 (眼睛或頭)

When he finished he lifted his eyes and looked out the window. 他完成以後擡眼曏窗外看去。

4. V-T If people in authority lift a law or rule that prevents people from doing something, they end it. 解除 (法令等)

The European Commission has urged France to lift its ban on imports of British beef. 歐盟委員會已敦促法國解除對英國牛肉進口的禁令。

5. V-T/V-I If something lifts your spirits or your mood, or if they lift, you start feeling more cheerful. 鼓舞

He used his incredible sense of humour to lift my spirits. 他以不可思議的幽默感鼓舞了我的士氣。

6. N-COUNT If you give someone a lift somewhere, you take them there in your car as a favour to them. 搭便車

He had a car and often gave me a lift home. 他有一輛汽車，經常讓我搭便車廻家。

7. N-UNCOUNT Lift is the force that makes an aircraft leave the ground and stay in the air. 提陞力

An aeroplane has to reach a certain speed before there is enough lift to get it off the ground. 飛機得在達到一定的速度以後，才能有足夠的提陞力從地麪起飛。

8. V-T If a government or organization lifts people or goods in or out of an area, it transports them there by aircraft, especially when there is a war. 空運

The army lifted people off rooftops where they had climbed to escape the flooding. 軍隊把爬到房頂躲避洪水的人們空運走。

9. V-T To lift something means to increase its amount or to increase the level or the rate at which it happens. 提高[英國英語]

10. N-COUNT A lift is a device that carries people or goods up and down inside tall buildings. 電梯[英國英語]

We took the lift to the fourteenth floor. 我們乘電梯到了第14層。

11. to lift a finger→see finger