queue up

英 [kjuː ʌp]

美 [kjuː ʌp]

排队（等候）; （为得到某机会而）排队，排队等候

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (为得到某机会而)排队，排队等候
  If you say that peopleare queuing up todo or have something, you mean that a lot of them want the opportunity to do it or have it.
  1. People are queueing up to work for me!...
     想为我效力的人可是排着长队呢！
  2. There are a growing number of countries queueing up for membership.
     越来越多的国家争相成为其中的一员。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line up


• See also:queue

英英释义

verb

• form a queue, form a line, stand in line
  1. Customers lined up in front of the store
  Synonym:line upqueue

双语例句

• Discussing how to make people queue up less in the commercial banks; Queue forme at the door of the bank when the news spread about its possible collapse.
  当消息传出这家银行有可能倒闭时，人们在银行门口排起了长队。
• The thing I saw last time was mainly that tourists nationwide all queue up for each pavilion in great order inside the2010 World Expo Park.
  我上次所看到的主要是全国的游客都井然有序的排队参观每一个馆在2010世博会上。
• Freshmen, eager to get home for the Chinese New Year, queue up at the railway station for hours.
  怀着盼望回家过年的心情，大一新生们在火车站排了几个小时队来买票。
• They queue up just to speak to me. This is a clear case of discrimination ( against foreign imports).
  她们排好队只不过是来对我加以申斥。这显然是（对进口货的）排斥。
• People are queueing up to work for me!
  想为我效力的人可是排着长队呢！
• All threads that go to sleep from calling pthread_mutex_lock() on an already-locked mutex will "queue up" for access to that mutex.
  对已锁定的互斥对象上调用pthreadmutexlock（）的所有线程都将进入睡眠状态，这些睡眠的线程将“排队”访问这个互斥对象。
• But to prove you didn't do it out of sheer terror or peer pressure, it pays to queue up straight away and do it all over again.
  不过为了证实你乘坐“震天惊叫”没有一点儿恐惧和同伴的压力，马上排队再来一次是值得的。
• Yet institutional and sometimes private investors queue up to back them, desperate for exposure to the latest fashion.
  但热切盼望参与最新时尚投资的机构投资者以及一些私人投资者，却争相为他们提供支持。
• Even worse, she must once again queue up in a dingy cafeteria and eat quickly at messy tables.
  更糟糕的是，她还要在灯光昏暗的自助餐厅排长队买饭，由于餐桌脏乱不堪，她总是快速吃完后就离开。
• Please queue up and stand clear of the platform screen door.
  请按箭头排队候车，勿依靠屏蔽门。