1. 建筑；建造
    If you build something, you make it by joining things together.

    e.g. Developers are now proposing to build a hotel on the site...
           开发商现在建议在这个地方盖一座宾馆。
    e.g. The house was built in the early 19th century...
           这所房子建于19世纪初期。

2. 把…建入；把…嵌入
    If you build something into a wall or object, you make it in such a way that it is in the wall or object, or is part of it.

    e.g. If the TV was built into the ceiling, you could lie there while watching your favourite programme.
           如果把电视嵌入天花板，你就可以躺在那里欣赏你最喜欢的节目了。

3. 创建；建立
    If people build an organization, a society, or a relationship, they gradually form it.

    e.g. He and a partner set up on their own and built a successful fashion company...
           他和同伴自己创业，创办了一家成功的时装公司。
    e.g. Their purpose is to build a fair society and a strong economy...
           他们的目的是要建立一个公平的社会和一个强大的经济体。

4. 把（组织、系统或产品）建立于
    If you build an organization, system, or product on something, you base it on it.

    e.g. We will then have a firmer foundation of fact on which to build theories...
           那样我们将会获得一个建立理论所需的更为牢固的事实基础。
    e.g. The town's nineteenth-century prosperity was built on steel.
           这个城市19世纪的繁荣是建立在钢铁工业基础上的。

5. 使成为（政策、系统或产品的）组成部分
    If you build something into a policy, system, or product, you make it part of it.

build的翻译

    e.g. We have to build computers into the school curriculum...
           我们必须把计算机纳入到学校的课程中。
    e.g. How much delay should we build into the plan?
           我们应该为这个计划预留多少富余的时间？

6. （使）（信心或信任）逐渐增强
    To build someone's confidence or trust means to increase it gradually. If someone's confidence or trust builds, it increases gradually.

    e.g. The encouragement that young boys receive builds a greater self-confidence...
           小男孩受到的鼓励会增强他们的自信心。
    e.g. Diplomats hope the meetings will build mutual trust...
           外交官们希望会议能增进彼此的信任。

7. （在…的基础上）继续发展
    If you build on the success of something, you take advantage of this success in order to make further progress.

    e.g. Build on the qualities you are satisfied with and work to change those you are unhappy with...
           以自己满意的优点为发展基础，努力改变自己不满意的地方。
    e.g. The new regime has no successful economic reforms on which to build.
           新政权没有成功实施可赖以为继的经济改革。

8. （压力、速度、声音或激情）逐渐变大，逐渐增强
      If pressure, speed, sound, or excitement builds, it gradually becomes greater.

      e.g. Pressure built yesterday for postponement of the ceremony...
             要求推迟仪式的压力昨天进一步增大。
      e.g. The last chords of the suite build to a crescendo.
             组曲的最后和音部分渐入高潮。

9. 体形；体格；身材
      Someone's build is the shape that their bones and muscles give to their body.

      e.g. He's described as around thirty years old, six feet tall and of medium build...
             他被描述成一个30岁左右、6英尺高、中等身材的人。
      e.g. The authority of his voice is undermined by the smallness of his build.
             瘦小的身形削弱了他声音中的权威感。

10. see also: building;built

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