catch up

赶上；很快拾起；缠住；了解近况，叙旧

Many short-stay child-patients catch up quickly.(许多短期住院的儿童病人很快就赶上来了。)

Most late developers will catch up with their friends.(绝大多数发育晚的人都将赶上他们的朋友们。)

'The fact is we still have a way to go before real robots catch up with their science fiction counterparts,' Gates says.(盖茨说：“事实上，在真正的机器人赶上科幻小说中的机器人之前，我们还有很长的路要走。”)

Summer is a time to relax, regroup and catch up on all those things you've been putting off all year.(夏天是休养整顿、并处理一年中积压事务的时候。)

I have a lot of work to catch up on.(我有许多工作要补做。)

Students without experience can catch up after a few introductory courses, said Tom Cortina, the assistant dean at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science.(卡耐基梅隆大学计算机科学学院的副院长汤姆·科尔蒂纳说，缺乏经验的学生可以在学完几门入门课程后追上。)

After missing a term through illness he had to work hard to catch up with the others.(他因病休学一学期，不得不努力学习好赶上别的同学。)

Maybe you could recommend some extra reading I can do to catch up?(也许你可以推荐一些我可以做的额外阅读来让我赶上进度？)

Once back at school, children rarely get extra teaching, and are told to catch up as best they can.(一旦回到学校，孩子们很少受到额外的教育，并被告知要尽力赶上进度。)

I had fallen so far behind that it seemed pointless trying to catch up.(我落后太多，似乎追赶下去也毫无意义。)

catch up

verb

1. learn belatedly
find out about something after it happened

e.g. I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology

2. reach the point where one should be after a delay

e.g. I caught up on my homework

1. 赶上;追上;跟上
If you catch up with someone who is in front of you, you reach them by walking faster than they are walking.

catch up是什么意思

e.g. I stopped and waited for her to catch up...
我停住脚步，等她追上来。
e.g. We caught up with the nuns.
我们赶上了修女们。

2. 赶上，达到(标准、水平等)
To catch up with someone means to reach the same standard, stage, or level that they have reached.

e.g. Most late developers will catch up with their friends...
大多数身材发育迟缓者都会赶上他们的朋友。
e.g. John began the season better than me but I have fought to catch up...
赛季伊始，约翰的表现比我好，不过我经过努力追了上来。

3. 补做;赶做
If you catch up on an activity that you have not had much time to do recently, you spend time doing it.

e.g. I was catching up on a bit of reading.
当时我在忙着读些东西。

4. 了解近况;叙旧
If you catch up on friends who you have not seen for some time or on their lives, you talk to them and find out what has happened in their lives since you last talked together.

e.g. The ladies spent some time catching up on each other's health and families...
女士们花了点时间叙旧，聊了聊彼此的健康和家庭状况。
e.g. She plans to return to Dublin to catch up with the relatives she has not seen since she married.
她打算回都柏林，去看望一下结婚后就再没见过面的亲戚。

5. 牵扯进;卷入
If you are caught up in something, you are involved in it, usually unwillingly.

e.g. The people themselves weren't part of the conflict; they were just caught up in it...
那些人本来和这场冲突不相干，他们只是被牵涉进去的。
e.g. Many African women, for reasons of poverty, get caught up in the drug trade.
许多非洲妇女为贫穷所迫堕入贩毒行业。