round up
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To collect or gather (something) together.
— The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.
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To collect or gather (something) together.; To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.
— In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.
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To collect or gather (something) together.; To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.
— During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.
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To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
— The total is $24,995 — let's round it up to $25,000.
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