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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

pile up
  1. 1. vi. [papers+] 堆积
  2. 2. vi. [problems, work+] 积累

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

pile up
  1. 1. [sports] 连环碰车
pile up
  1. 1. 堆积,堆集
  2. 2. 把东西堆在…上
  3. 3. 堆积成
  4. 4. 形成一堆;累积起来;积压
  5. 5. 挤成一团
  6. 6. (若干车辆)相撞;(汽车或飞机)撞毁;撞毁(汽车或飞机)
  7. 7. 使(船)搁浅;(船)搁浅

Collins English-English Dictionary

pile up
  1. 1. vb [adverb] to gather or be gathered in a pile; accumulate
  2. 2. vb [informal] to crash or cause to crash
  3. 3. n [informal] a multiple collision of vehicles

Examples

This may only take a moment, but those moments pile up and eat into time that could be spent doing other things.
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
我们不要等问题成了堆才去解决。
We shouldn't wait until problems pile up before we try to solve them. 成堆
把木头垛起来
pile up the logs
切记不要使问题成了堆,才来一个总结,放马后炮。
Make sure that you don't wait until problems pile up before making a reckoning —that would be firing belated shots. 马后炮
把稻草耙拢成堆
rake up the straw into a pile
别把垃圾堆在这里。
Don't pile the rubbish up here.

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