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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- pile up
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vi.
[papers+]
堆积
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2.
vi.
[problems, work+]
积累
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- pile up
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[sports]
连环碰车
- pile up
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堆积,堆集
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把东西堆在…上
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堆积成
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形成一堆;累积起来;积压
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挤成一团
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(若干车辆)相撞;(汽车或飞机)撞毁;撞毁(汽车或飞机)
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使(船)搁浅;(船)搁浅
Collins English-English Dictionary
- pile up
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vb
[adverb]
to gather or be gathered in a pile; accumulate
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2.
vb
[informal]
to crash or cause to crash
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3.
n
[informal]
a multiple collision of vehicles
Examples
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This may only take a moment, but those moments pile up and eat into time that could be spent doing other things.
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做这件事可能只消片刻,但一个个片刻累积起来,便消耗掉了本可去做其他事情的时间。
→ eat
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我们不要等问题成了堆才去解决。
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We shouldn't wait until problems pile up before we try to solve them.
→ 成堆
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把木头垛起来
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pile up the logs
→ 垛
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切记不要使问题成了堆,才来一个总结,放马后炮。
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Make sure that you don't wait until problems pile up before making a reckoning —that would be firing belated shots.
→ 马后炮
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把稻草耙拢成堆
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rake up the straw into a pile
→ 耙
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别把垃圾堆在这里。
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Don't pile the rubbish up here.
→ 堆
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