pipe up

英 [paɪp ʌp]

美 [paɪp ʌp]

尖声唱；吹奏乐曲; 开始（大声）讲话

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （在沉默了一阵之后）开始说话，开始讲话（尤指说出令人吃惊或奇怪的事情）
  If someone who has been silent for a whilepipes up, they say something, especially something surprising or strange.
  1. 'That's right, mister,' another child piped up...
     “没错，先生，”另一个孩子突然说道。
  2. At which point I piped up and asked whether it might be at all possible to have some positive input.
     在此我插了一句询问这事儿是否会产生一些积极的投入。

英英释义

verb

• utter a shrill cry
  Synonym:shriekshrillpipe
• begin to play or sing

双语例句

• The band began pipe up the national anthem as the national flag rose slowly.
  随着国旗缓缓升起；乐队开始演奏国歌。
• At this point, a member of that tiny band of anoraks who fully understand the complexities of the single market one of the Schleswig-Holstein questions of our time may pipe up and say the problem lies in the European economic area, not the eurozone or the EU.
  此时，充分理解错综复杂的单一市场（我们这个时代的复杂难题之一）的怪人小圈子，或许会跳出一个人，称问题在于欧洲经济区（eea），而非欧元区或欧盟。
• In order to distribute the initial discharge of water supply network automatically by computer, it is necessary to link the subroutine of initial discharge distribution of pipe network up with the main program.
  为使给水管网的初分流量完全由机器自动完成，必须将分配初始流量子程序接入主程序。
• When the valve of the steam outlet pipe is opened up and the control valve of the steam pipe is shut down, the steam is produced;
  当打开蒸汽导出管上的阀门、且关闭蒸汽管上的控制阀时，即可生产蒸汽；
• At which point I piped up and asked whether it might be at all possible to have some positive input.
  在此我插了一句询问这事儿是否会产生一些积极的投入。
• We are going to pipe the water up from the valley.
  我们将用管道把水从山谷里引上来。
• 'That's right, mister,' another child piped up
  “没错，先生，”另一个孩子突然说道。
• Some had welded together what appeared to be a massive blow torch, consisting of pipe hooked up to a propane tank, that they dragged towards police lines.
  一些人将管子和丙烷罐连接起来，焊接成一个巨大的喷枪，并往警察队伍那里拖。
• The leaves clog our drains in the Fall; The water pipe is backed up.
  秋天树叶堵塞了我们的排水沟。
• Professors expect and demand engagement and discussion and students will often pipe up with questions in the middle of a salient point.
  教授期望和需求的参与和讨论，学生往往会在管道的一个突出问题中的问题了。