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第一， 迷你對話

A: This new singer on the picture looks lovely.

照片上的新歌手很可愛。

B: Have you ever heard her sing?

你聽過她唱歌嗎？

A: Yes, not bad!

聽過，還不錯。

B: She has been build up into a great success. She is no longer a new singer, but a star.

她已經被捧紅了，不再是歌手了，而是歌星了。

第二， 地道表達

build up

1. 解詞釋義

Build up有“增加，增長”的意思，可以引申為“使某人的名氣或某事得以增長”或“大肆渲染宣傳某人或某事使之成名或稱為焦點”，也就是“吹捧，抬舉”的意思。柯林斯詞典中解釋道：If you build someone or something up, you make them seem important or exciting, for example by talking about them a lot.

2. 拓展例句

e.g. The media will report on it and the tabloids will build it up.

媒體會報道此事，小報則會大肆吹捧。

e.g. Historians built him up as the champion of parliament.

歷史學家把他譽為議會的捍衛者。

e.g. I'd built him up in my head as being the love of my life.

我心里已把他當作我一生的摯愛。

e.g. She has been look down on anyone else around her since she built up into great success.

自從她被捧紅后，她就看不起周圍的人了。

第三， 視野拓展

build up ：（使）積聚；（使）逐漸增加

e.g. The regime built up the largest army in Africa.

該政權逐漸建立起一支非洲規模最大的軍隊。

e.g. The collection has been built up over the last seventeen years.

在過去的17年中，收藏的規模不斷擴大。

e.g. Slowly a thick layer of fat builds up on the pan's surface.

慢慢地，平底鍋表面積起了一層厚厚的油脂。

build up：增強…的體質；建立…的信心

e.g. Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear.

用友善和富有同情心的傾聽來重拾她的信心。

e.g. Dr. Johnson and I have been trying to build him up physically.

約翰遜醫生和我一直試圖增強他的體質。

第四， 詞海拾貝

no longer ：不再

e.g. He was long a famous musician, but he plays no longer.

他成為有名的音樂家已很久了, 但他現在不演奏了。

e.g. The city's water supply is no longer adequate for its need.

這個城市的供水已不敷需求。

not… but… ：不是……而是……

e.g. She is not ugly but kind of strange.

她不是丑，而是有點奇怪。

e.g. He wants to buy not a skirt, but a dress.

他想買的不是一條短裙，而是一條連衣裙。

第五， 語法點撥

1. This new singer on the picture looks lovely.

要點解析：表示“報刊雜志上的人或物或字”，用解詞on，不要用in。

2. Have you ever heard her sing?

要點解析：hear后面的賓語的補足語如果是動詞的話，就要注意是用動詞的現在分詞還是原形。如果聽這個動作在發生，賓語補足語的動作同時也在發生，就需要用現在分詞。如果不是，就用動詞原形。