shape up

基本解释

He will shape up into an excellent basketball player.
他会成长为一个优秀的蓝球运动员。
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"I've got to shape up," you might tell yourself, "although I may appear on the airport security screen only as a blue man in Avatar.
你可能对自己说："虽然我出现在机场的安检荧屏上仅是一个《阿凡达》里的蓝人，我也得保持一个好身材，而且，往底裤里藏东西也毫无作用。"
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is eating up to 9 bananas a day as he tries to shape up for the General Election, an insider revealed.
据知情者透露，英国首相布朗为了塑形，为今年的议会选举做准备，正大吃香蕉，一天最多可达到9根。
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But,Steve Coll at the New America Foundation says the brother remains a problem, and Washington is just giving him more time to shape up.
It's a puzzle piece that looks kind of small but notice there is this little funky shape up top that's the same shape as the blue blocks we've just looked at 'cause you can drag and drop that condition on top of that, and even though there's not much space in the middle here, it turns out what's nice about scratches, it will grow to fill more and more puzzle pieces.
它只是一个看起来很小的拼图,上方有一些时髦的形状,形状与我们先前看到的绿色块一样,你可以拖拽这些条件语句，尽管中间位置没有太多的空间，但关于scratches很好的一点是，如果你不断地。
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and get in shape and build up endurance.
保持体型，锻炼毅力。
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It was not just people like Mr Romney who were pushing American companies to shape up.
ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

If something is shaping up, it is starting to develop or seems likely to happen.
If you ask how someone or something is shaping up, you want to know how well they are doing in a particular situation or activity.
If you tell someone to shape up, you are telling them to start behaving in a sensible and responsible way.