英语词组“come up to”的意思是“到达某处”、“走近”、“谈到”、“接近”、“达到”、“竟然会这样”。读音为:英 [kʌm ʌp tu] 美 [kʌm ʌp tu]。例句如下:
1. The party didn't start until everyone had arrived and we had come up to the roof terrace to party. 聚会一直等到所有人都到齐才开始,而且我们也是到了屋顶露台才开始狂欢。
2. I didn't expect to see you come up to my room. 我没想到你会来到我的房间。
3. The teacher came up to my desk and said, "I think you missed a word." 老师走到我的桌子旁边说:“我想你漏掉了一个字。”
4. The temperature is expected to come up to 30 degrees centigrade. 预计气温将升至30摄氏度。
5. The new technology will come up to its full potential in the next few years. 新技术在未来几年将发挥出其全部潜力。
6. He's not really a hard man, he's just trying to come up to scratch. 他并不是一个硬心肠的人,他只是想尽办法达到一定的水平而已。
7. It was only when we got there that we realized we had come up to our maximum limit for spending. 我们一到那儿就发现我们已经用掉了最大的开支限度。
8. It was a question that came up time and time again in our discussions. 这是我们在讨论中不断提及的一个问题。
9. We should stop trying to beat each other and come up to each other's level. 我们应该停止相互竞争,要彼此尊重,相互帮助,达到一个更高的水平。
10. We can't come up to his expectations because he's an exporter while we're mere importers. 我们的生产技术不可能会和他所要求的完全吻合,因为我们仅仅是进口商而非出口商。