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1. Mark didn't shape up until he was thirty years old.
马克到三十岁时才振奋起来。
2. The teacher said I should shape up or go join the army.
老师说我必须振奋起来否则去从军。
3. You'd better shape up, young man.
年轻人，你最好是好自为之。
4. They've shaped up a program.
他们已拟定了一个方案。
1. 表现良好,乖：We should probably hit the road. It's going to take us two hours to get home. 我们可能该上路了吧?到家... | shape up 表现良好,乖 | You'd better shape up if you want to stay on. 如果你还想留下来的话最好乖...
2. 打起精神：241 Separate checks! 分开算. | 242 Shape up. 打起精神. | 243 She's crackers. 她是疯子.
3. 成形, 形成, 顺利发展：876. shape into .形成 | 877. shape up成形, 形成,顺利发展 | 878. share in分享,分担
4. 挑选临时工：shape 外形 | shape-up 挑选临时工 | shaped 成形
1. 开始成形;有可能发生
If something is shaping up, it is starting to develop or seems likely to happen.
e.g. There are also indications that a major tank battle may be shaping up for tonight...
也有迹象表明今晚可能会发生大规模的坦克战。
e.g. The accident is already shaping up as a significant environmental disaster...
这次事故已经造成严重的环境灾难。
2. shape up
2. (人)表现(如何);(事物）进展(情况)
If you ask how someone or something is shaping up, you want to know how well they are doing in a particular situation or activity.
e.g. I did have a few worries about how Hugh and I would shape up as parents...
我对休和我将如何为人父母确实有些忧虑。
e.g. Girls are being recruited now. I heard they are shaping up very well.
现在开始招女兵了，我听说她们表现很好。
3. 端正行为;好自为之;好好干
If you tell someone to shape up, you are telling them to start behaving in a sensible and responsible way.
e.g. It is no use simply to tell adolescents to shape up and do something useful.
仅仅告诉青少年要品行端正，做有意义的事，是没有用的。
1. Shan said a truly competitive market would only take shape after 2007 when the market is completely opened up.
2. It's easier than opening up a new jar of pickles, but harder than twisting a Rubik's Cube into the right shape.
3. There's a ghost of the shape of a guitar in there somewhere, all cut up.
4. Hand in hand, the figures spiral up to the ceiling in the shape of a DNA double helix.
5. The company is now establishing a glassware art museum, a move to shape " glassware culture " in China and thus drive up glassware tourism.
6. The grayish white jade dragon is almost round in shape, with the " dragon tail " turning up.
7. Joint stock companies make up more than 50 percent of all businesses, and a market economic system has taken shape.
8. One major new addition is " China Face ", which gets up close and personal with the personalities helping to shape modern China.
9. We aren't talking about digging up roads repeatedly, or incessantly reworking pavements that are already in pretty good shape.
10. shape up的反义词
10. Taliban militants have vowed to speed up activities mostly in the shape of suicide attacks and roadside bombings which often harm the civilians.