land up

英 [lænd ʌp]

美 [lænd ʌp]

最终抵达; 最终落到（某种处境）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 抵达；到达；最终落到（某种处境）
  If you say that youland upin a place or situation, you mean that you arrive there after a long journey or at the end of a long series of events.
  1. Half of those who went east seem to have landed up in southern India...
     前往东方的人似乎有半数到了印度南部。
  2. We landed up at the Las Vegas at about 6.30.
     我们6点30分左右抵达拉斯维加斯。

英英释义

verb

• finally be or do something
  1. He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
  2. he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
  Synonym:finish upfetch upend upwind upfinish
• block with earth, as after a landslide
  Synonym:earth up

双语例句

• How did you land up studying astronomy?
  你为何最终选定学天文学呢？
• The Israelis worked their land close up to the border.
  以色列人在接近边境的地区耕种土地。
• Many smaller property developers have been squeezed out as the government has put ever larger lots of land up for auction.
  由于政府拍卖的地块越来越大，许多规模较小的地产开发商被排挤出局。
• Because he had put land mines up there.
  因为他在那里布好了地雷。
• A helicopter is able to take off and land straight up and down.
  直升飞机可以垂直起飞或着陆。
• He pulled out huge fossils of ancient animals from cliffs in Patagonia, and experienced an earthquake so powerful that it threw land up out of the sea.
  他从巴塔哥尼亚高原的悬崖峭壁上挖出了巨大的古代动物化石；
• Earthquakes push the land up, depressing the sea level in the area and preventing corals from growing upwards.
  地震把陆地抬升，降低了海平面，并阻止了珊瑚向上生长。
• The land cracked up because of the drought.
  土地因干旱而龟裂。
• To their breakfast, Englishmen often land up with toast and marmalade.
  英国人常以烤面包加果酱结早餐。
• A4-year-old boy who released a balloon not long ago with a message hoping to find a pen pal in a foreign land ended up having a correspondence with the Queen.
  一个四岁的英国男孩不久前放飞了一只带有字条的气球，他希望能找一个外国笔友，没想到最后他竟然收到了女王的回信。