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第一， 迷你对话

A: This new singer on the picture looks lovely.

照片上的新歌手很可爱。

B: Have you ever heard her sing?

你听过她唱歌吗？

A: Yes, not bad!

听过，还不错。

B: She has been build up into a great success. She is no longer a new singer, but a star.

她已经被捧红了，不再是歌手了，而是歌星了。

第二， 地道表达

build up

1. 解词释义

Build up有“增加，增长”的意思，可以引申为“使某人的名气或某事得以增长”或“大肆渲染宣传某人或某事使之成名或称为焦点”，也就是“吹捧，抬举”的意思。柯林斯词典中解释道：If you build someone or something up, you make them seem important or exciting, for example by talking about them a lot.

2. 拓展例句

e.g. The media will report on it and the tabloids will build it up.

媒体会报道此事，小报则会大肆吹捧。

e.g. Historians built him up as the champion of parliament.

历史学家把他誉为议会的捍卫者。

e.g. I'd built him up in my head as being the love of my life.

我心里已把他当作我一生的挚爱。

e.g. She has been look down on anyone else around her since she built up into great success.

自从她被捧红后，她就看不起周围的人了。

第三， 视野拓展

build up ：（使）积聚；（使）逐渐增加

e.g. The regime built up the largest army in Africa.

该政权逐渐建立起一支非洲规模最大的军队。

e.g. The collection has been built up over the last seventeen years.

在过去的17年中，收藏的规模不断扩大。

e.g. Slowly a thick layer of fat builds up on the pan's surface.

慢慢地，平底锅表面积起了一层厚厚的油脂。

build up：增强…的体质；建立…的信心

e.g. Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear.

用友善和富有同情心的倾听来重拾她的信心。

e.g. Dr. Johnson and I have been trying to build him up physically.

约翰逊医生和我一直试图增强他的体质。

第四， 词海拾贝

no longer ：不再

e.g. He was long a famous musician, but he plays no longer.

他成为有名的音乐家已很久了, 但他现在不演奏了。

e.g. The city's water supply is no longer adequate for its need.

这个城市的供水已不敷需求。

not… but… ：不是……而是……

e.g. She is not ugly but kind of strange.

她不是丑，而是有点奇怪。

e.g. He wants to buy not a skirt, but a dress.

他想买的不是一条短裙，而是一条连衣裙。

第五， 语法点拨

1. This new singer on the picture looks lovely.

要点解析：表示“报刊杂志上的人或物或字”，用解词on，不要用in。

2. Have you ever heard her sing?

要点解析：hear后面的宾语的补足语如果是动词的话，就要注意是用动词的现在分词还是原形。如果听这个动作在发生，宾语补足语的动作同时也在发生，就需要用现在分词。如果不是，就用动词原形。