throw up

參見：throwup 和 throw-up

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動詞

throw up (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 throws up，現在分詞 throwing up，過去式 threw up，過去分詞 thrown up)

1. 僅按字面意思，並無比喻或俗語義；參見throw、up。
   • 1910，Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

     The servant (who) had first entered had thrown up the window […]

2. (現口語) 嘔吐

   The baby threw up all over my shirt.

   嬰兒嘔到我整件襯衫上了。

   That cat is always throwing up hairballs.

   那隻貓總是吐毛球。

3. 拋出，產出（新的或意外的東西）

   This system has thrown up a few problems.

   這個系統出了幾個問題。

4. 揚起，濺起

   The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.

   車輪揚起了很多石頭。

5. (及物，多已過時) （尤指草草地）豎起，立起，建造
   • 1872, Every Saturday (page 96)

     Every depression in the ground had been utilized; every rise taken advantage of, to dig rifle-pits or throw up a little earthwork, surrounded with sand-bags […]

   • 2001, Diane Kennedy, Loop-Holes of the Rich: How the Rich Legally Make More Money & Pay Less Tax, Warner Books, ISBN 0446678325, page 70,

     In other words, a business can throw up a huge detour sign in the way of the government.

   • 2007, Marissa Monteilh, Dr. Feelgood, Kensington Books, ISBN 0758211228, page 27,

     The deal was that if anyone started catching feelings, he could throw up a stop sign and the other would honor it.

6. (及物，不及物) 放棄
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     「No!」 returned the spy. 「I throw up. I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham. Though how this man knows it was a sham, is a wonder of wonders to me.」

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   • 2011, Alan Bennett, "Baffled at a Bookcase", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:

     In 1944, believing, as people in Leeds tended to do, that flying bombs or no flying bombs, things were better Down South, Dad threw up his job with the Co-op and we migrated to Guildford.

7. 用手比劃幫派標誌
   • 2005, Brandon Bennett, Moon in Gemini, iUniverse, ISBN 059536442X, page 56,

     Why don't you go on and throw up ya gang sign. Represent your hood, homey?

8. (過時，及物) 放大（圖片）

近義詞

• (嘔吐)： chuck up、hurl、upchuck (口語)、vomit

名詞

throw up (不可數)

1. (口語) 嘔吐物

   We had to scrub the seats for throw up when we left the dog in the car.

   我們把狗留在車裡的時候都得清洗座位上的嘔吐物。

其他形式

• throwup、throw-up

參見

• throw down

異序詞

• upthrow