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He explains that for him, draft #4 is the draft after the painstaking labor of creation is done, when all that’s left is to punch up the language, to replace shopworn words and phrases with stuff that sings.
然后查了下一些常见的词典，词典不多，欢迎补充:)。
查词方式分两种：。
1.查punch，然后页面内搜索punch up，根据原文意思，能够搜到结果如下：
1.1
Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary
punch (something) up or punch up (something) US, informal : to make (something) more lively, exciting, attractive, etc.
New owners punched up the newspaper with color photographs.
The steak was punched up with a pepper sauce.
1.2
Concise Oxford American Dictionary - 1st Edition
punch something up 1 use a computer keyboard to call something to the screen: to punch up Andy Warhol and get text, photographs, and video on the Pop Art period. 2 inf. enliven.
1.3
New Oxford American Dictionary
punch something up
use a computer keyboard to call something to the screen:
people will be able to punch up Andy Warhol and get text, photographs, and video on the entire Pop Art period.
(informal )enliven:
he needed to punch up his meandering presentation.
1.4
RANDOM HOUSE 2rd
16. punch up,
a. to call up (information) on a computer by the use of a keyboard: to punch up a list of hotel reservations.
b. Informal. to enliven, as with fresh ideas or additional material: You'd better punch up that speech with a few jokes.
1.5
SOED---这个解释应该不算恰当，原因见2.2。
punch up (a) Cinematography emphasize, increase (action, brightness, sound, etc.); (b) assault, beat up.
2.直接查punch up
2.1
Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary
与1.结果相同
2.2
[8in1]Dictionary of Idioms, Phrasal Verbs and Slang
punch up
punches, punching, punched
punch up sth or punch sth up
American informal to make something more interesting
It's the same song but punched up with a new arrangement.
--From Cambridge Idioms and Phrasal Verbs Dictionary
punch up
verb to enhance something, especially to enhance a script with humour, more lively dialogue, or the like. In the 1950s, the entertainment industry used the term to mean to increase the volume of the sound track or brightness of the picture. Towards the end of the century, the meaning changed to a writing term [US, 1984]
--From The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
2.3
[m-w.com]webster2012_yru
punch up vt
Definition
: to give energy or forcefulness to <jokes added to punch up a speech>
First Known Use
circa 1959 |
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