buck up

精神振奋； 奋发； 欢欣鼓舞

verb

1. gain courage

Synonym: take heart

1. 振作…的精神；使受到鼓舞
If you buck someone up or buck up their spirits, you say or do something to make them more cheerful.

e.g. Anything anybody said to him to try and buck him up wouldn't sink in...
任何人对他说的任何劝他振作起来的话都不会起作用。
e.g. The aim, it seemed, was to buck up their spirits in the face of the recession.
其目的好像是为了给面临经济衰退的他们鼓劲儿打气。

2. 振作；积极行动起来
If you tell someone to buck up or to buck up their ideas, you are telling them to start behaving in a more positive and efficient manner.

e.g. People are saying if we don't buck up we'll be in trouble...
人们说，如果我们再不积极行动起来，我们就会有麻烦。
e.g. Buck up your ideas or you'll get more of the same treatment.
打起精神来，否则你会吃更多苦头。

The good news made all of us buck up.(这条好消息使我们大家倍受鼓舞。)

You have got to buck up on certain situations and create your own destiny, which is up to each and every one of us.(在一些特定环境下，你要振作精神，创造属于你自己的命运，这对我们每个人都是受用的。)

Buck up, or you'll miss the train.(赶快，要不你就赶不上火车了。)

"Put the currency on the phone," I heard Mrs. Sherbet say, and then her voice turned cozy. "Buck up," she said.(“让货币来接电话，”我听见冰霜女士说，然后她柔声细语地说“振作点，”她说道。)

This news will buck her up (make her buck up) a lot.(这个消息将使她大大振作起来。)

He'll have to buck up, if he wants to catch that train.(如果他想赶上那班火车，那么他就得快点。)

You'd better buck up your ideas.(你最好注意改进你的思想。)

If he hopes to keep his job, he'll have to buck up his ideas.(他若想继续干这份工作，就得更新自己的观念。)

Buck up! Things are getting better!(别灰心！情况会好起来的！)

Ms. Munna understands this tough love, buck up, buckle-downadvice.(穆纳理解这个建议包含的爱之深责之切、振作精神和全力以赴。)