pumped up
振作起来,振奋人心,打气的,鼓起勇气
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- : an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- : Engineering, Building Trades. a shore having a jackscrew in its foot for adjusting the length or for bearing more firmly against the structure to be sustained.
- : Biology. an animal organ that propels fluid through the body; heart.
- : Cell Biology. a system that supplies energy for transport against a chemical gradient, as the sodium pump for the transfer of sodium and potassium ions across a cell membrane.
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- : to raise, drive, etc., with a pump.
- : to free from water or other liquid by means of a pump.
- : to inflate by pumping: to pump a tire up.
- : to operate or move by an up-and-down or back-and-forth action.
- : to supply with air, as an organ, by means of a pumplike device.
- : to drive, force, etc., as if from a pump: He rapidly pumped a dozen shots into the bull's-eye.
- : to supply or inject as if by using a pump: to pump money into a failing business.
- : to question artfully or persistently to elicit information: to pump someone for confidential information.
- : to elicit by questioning.
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- : to work a pump; raise or move water, oil, etc., with a pump.
- : to operate as a pump does.
- : to move up and down like a pump handle.
- : to exert oneself in a manner likened to pumping: He pumped away at his homework all evening.
- : to seek to elicit information from a person.
- : to come out in spurts.
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- : pump up, to inflate.to increase, heighten, or strengthen; put more effort into or emphasis on; intensify: The store has decided to pump up its advertising.to infuse with enthusiasm, competitive spirit, energy, etc.: The contestants were all backstage pumping themselves up for their big moment.
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“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
We won't find out this season, though it comes up occasionally.
Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.
The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.
In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.