英语释义

1. a seasoned pureed condiment usually made from tomatoes

2. intended to catch up to a theoretical norm or a competitor's accomplishments

3. the act or fact of catching up or trying to catch up (as with a norm or competitor)
had to play catch-up also an increase intended to achieve catch-up

4. to pick up often abruptly
the thief caught the purse up and ran

5. ensnare, entangle
education has been caught up in a stultifying mythology
— N. M. Pusey

6. enthrall
the … public was caught up in the car's magic
— D. A. Jedlicka

7. to provide with the latest information
catch me up on the news

8. to travel fast enough to overtake an advance party
The soldier ran to catch up with his unit.

9. to reach a state of parity (see parity sense 1) or of being able to cope
students who miss class have difficulty catching up

10. to bring about arrest for illicit activities
the police caught up with the thieves

11. to complete or compensate (see compensate sense 1) for something belatedly
catch up on lost sleep

12. to acquire belated information
catch up on the news

片语

tomato catchup蕃茄酱；番茄沙司

tomato catsup番茄酱（等于tomato catchup或tomato ketchup）

tomato sauce番茄酱，蕃茄汁；番茄沙司

Catchup Time赶上的时间

bechamel catchup调味酱

catchup method增记方法

catchup effect追赶效果

catchup beef酱汁牛肉

Candy Catchup消方块

catchup stitch锁线打结装订

Catchup Sole酱渍鳎目鱼

英汉例句

• can you believe it, he even puts catchup on his ice cream.

  你相信吗，他甚至把调味酱放到冰淇淋里。

• and another oddball is bill, especially when it comes to food. can you believe it, he even puts catchup on his ice cream. talk about oddballs.

  另外一个很怪的人是比尔，特别是在吃东西方面。你信不信，他吃冰淇淋的时候竟然还要加蕃茄酱。真是什么怪人都有！

• but they face increasing global competition and need to catchup with the best and most ambitious international companies.

  但是他们也面临着越来越多的全球竞争，需要赶超那些最领先的、最雄心勃勃的国际同行。

• we will run a catchup in the middle of september. watch our update.

  九月份我们举办一次聚会，大概在月中。请留意群通知。

• the state on the standby machine becomes 「remote catchup pending」 (listing 11), meaning that the standby has lost the connection to the primary.

  备用计算机上的状态变为「remotecatchuppending」（清单11），这意味着备用计算机失去了到主要计算机的连接。

• now, after being a world leader in bio tech, we「ve got to play catchup .

  现在，作为生物技术的世界领导者，我们必须努力追赶。

• a key feature of catchup is that it then presents the result in audio form, so the latecomer hears a spoken summary rather than having to plough through a transcript.

  这种技术最大的特点是用音频的形式显示结果，这样迟到的人就可以听到一个语音的概括，而不用去读那些记录。

• although box is a solid player in the cloud storage market, it」s playing catchup by adding activity streams this late in the game.

  虽然box是目前云存储市场上一个有力的竞争者，但增加事件流这个这个功能实在来的是晚了点。

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ensnarl使缠绕

entangle使纠缠；卷入；使混乱

entoil陷害；使…入圈套

entrap使陷入；使陷罗网；欺骗

mesh网眼；网丝；圈套；网格

netad 凈地；凈赚地

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trap使……陷入险境或困境；（衣服、身体部位）夹住，绊住；捕捉，收集；使陷入圈套，使上当；给马戴饰物；（足球）停球；储存（气体、水等）

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untangle清理；整顿；解开…纠结