【句子】Wow. It’s really piling up. 【Desperate Housewives S02E02】

【发音技巧】piling up连读；

【翻译】哇，这里都堆积如山了。

今天我们学习的短语，叫做pile up，有“堆积、堆成小山”的意思。

If you pile up a quantity of things or if they pile up, they gradually form a pile.

eg: Bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt.

推土机堆起了大堆大堆的土。

eg: Mail was still piling up at the office.

那间办公室里，邮件还正在堆积（变得越来越多）。

eg: Just pile up your garden waste on the curb, and we will be around in the morning to collect it.

就把你花园的垃圾堆在马路牙子就行，我们明早来会收走的。

eg: The newspapers began to pile up after a few days.

几天过后，那些报纸开始堆叠起来。

eg: Work is really piling up around here.

这里真的积压了很多工作。

值得注意的是，pile up还可以表示“车一个个都撞一起了，发生连环车祸”；

to crash together

eg: Nearly twenty cars piled up on the bridge this morning.

今天早晨那座桥上差不多20辆车撞在一起了。

pile-up，如果中间加上连字符，它指的意思是一个名词，表示：“连环车祸”；a road accident involving several vehicles crashing into each other

eg: Three people died in a multiple pile-up in freezing fog.

三个人死于冻雾引起的连环车祸中。

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在这个院子里，树叶都堆起来了。

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