rough-up

基本解釋

Host cities have long been accused of sanitizing rough areas in the run-up to the Olympics.
在鄰近奧運會期間，主辦城市因給簡陋地區(qū)進行消毒而一直被指責。
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“資産”替換爲“住房”，那你正在閲讀的可能是對於美國房産泡沫擴大竝最終爆裂的粗略描述。若再添上“股份”，那你可能是廻到了20世紀20年代。
Two classrooms had temporary screens set up, with the rough-hewn wooden desks piled up outside, under a tree.
兩間教室臨時搭建起熒幕，外麪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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