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To read and learn the facts about something before you need them: 'I genned up on the company before the interview.' British, informal, and honestly a bit old-fashioned now — 'read up on' is the safer everyday choice. 'Gen' is old British slang for information.
惡補(相關資訊)、事先做功課
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gen upverb
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informalTo study in detail; to familiarize oneself with all available information.
- I find the doctors are very surprised when they realise I'm genned up about my condition.
- So the heroic infant was able to gen up on all she needed to know about the making of bathtub gin by consulting a selection of large and impressive volumes in the reference section.
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informalTo inform or teach with all relevant details; to brief.
- It was also new to be listening to talk of bribery and corruption in high places, and Michael Murray saw it as his duty to gen me up on this.
- I offered him a deal where he was to gen me up on aerobatics in return for the kudos Of being one Of the first two squadron pilots to aerobat an Anson.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。