update
verb[T]
uk/ʌpˈdeɪt/us/ʌpˈdeɪt/B2
to make something moremodernorsuitablefor use now byaddingnewinformationorchangingitsdesign:
更新;使升级;使现代化an updatedversionof thesoftware该软件的升级版
B1
to give someone the mostrecentinformation:
为…提供最新信息We'll update youonthisnewsstorythroughouttheday.我们将全天向您报道该新闻事件的最新进展。
to tell someone something
- tellMy friend told me you were looking for me.
- let someone knowLet me know if you'd like to come.
- giveCan you give the message to Jo?
- communicateA 60-second TV commercial isn't always the best way to communicate a complex medical message.
- informThe relatives of the injured have been informed of the accident.
- notifyThe school has to notify parents if their children do not arrive at school.
- They've updated a lot of theentriesin the mostrecenteditionof theencyclopaedia.
- Theirwebsiteis updateddaily.
- Can you update me onprogresssofar?
- Do you have an updatedversionof thesystem?
- Shespentseveralhoursupdating themailinglist.
Restoring and reviving
- balsam
- bounce
- bounce back
- facelift
- flip
- lickyourwoundsidiom
- modernization
- modernize
- move with the timesidiom
- recrudescence
- regeneration
- regenerative
- rejuvenate
- rejuvenation
- resurrect
- resurrection
- revamp
- revitalize
- revival
- snap
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Announcing, informing & stating
update
noun[C]
uk/ˈʌp.deɪt/us/ˈʌp.deɪt/B2
anactof updating something or someone with newinformation:
新信息,新情况;更新Jo's just doing an updateonthemailinglist.乔正在更新邮寄名单。
I'll needregularupdatesonyourprogress.我要定期了解你的最新进展。
B2
a newformof something thatexistedat anearliertime:
新型;新版It's an updateofanold60smovie.它翻拍自一部60年代的老电影。
- Can you give me an update onprogresssofar?
- Later in thisbulletinwe will be going over toourWestminsterstudiofor an update on thesituation.
- It's an update of apreviousversionof thesoftware.
- Do youknowwhether it'spossibletobuyupdates?
- anewsupdate
Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaintsomeone/yourselfwithsomething
- affirm
- annunciation
- avowedly
- awaken
- awakensomeonetosomething
- break
- break it/the news tosomeoneidiom
- breathe/say a wordidiom
- disseminate
- known
- on the recordidiom
- pass
- proclamation
- putsomethingout ofitsmiseryidiom
- rapporteur
- resensitize
- rollout
- self-anointed
- statement
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