hold sb / sth ↔ up

hold sb / sth ↔ up usually passiveto delay someone or something耽搁某人; 推迟，阻延某事:•Sorry I'm late – I was held up at work.对不起我来晚了，我给工作耽搁了。

• martyries
• initial great-circle course
• perfections
• ophthalmalgia
• factionary
• folksily
• lieutenant commanders
• machine-buildings
• up town
• early warning
• here below
• aviates
• photoglow tube
• Baisakh
• the State Department
• inbred
• instruct
• dimensionality
• goof-up
• bring sb up to scratch
• euonymins
• chorda dorsalis
• taqueria
• exert oneself to the utmost
• subtilised
• boon coon
• lithotritized
• cannabidaceaes
• roughhoused
• black snakeroots
• would / could kill for sth
• push-pull
• Alex.
• nonohmic
• le roi le veut
• feel one's legs
• turtle deck
• bump start
• stitching horse
• electron-beam recorder
• polynias
• anthemata
• pillages
• photocontrol index map
• cheap John
• bring grist to the mill
• anathematisers
• wood engravings
• you, he, etc. can't win
• isas
• objurgates
• natural makeup
• word method
• nonparties
• pole-vaulters
• family court
• red algae
• district superintendent
• acid-resistant
• saccharinizing
• topsyturvily
• pavis
• enrages
• Dane
• norwest
• Reykjaviker
• street money
• sponsorer
• nibber
• resilement
• pop-cult
• -off
• zodico
• Parry Islands
• repute
• community chest
• humpty
• Hawaii
• cerebral seizure
• impetuousnesses
• peninsulated
• Belgique
• sensories
• Christoffel-Darboux formula
• put a price on sth
• satai
• weltanschauungs
• cutely
• connotive
• saddle pads
• historiographic
• maneuverability
• postural
• steel trap
• Panamas
• evisceration
• tickering
• entomologised
• Birkhoff, George David
• Near