He won't shut up about how he won the game.说起他是如何赢得那场比赛的,他会滔滔不绝地讲个不停。
Can someone get that dog to shut up?有人能让那条狗不叫吗?
— often used as a rude way to tell someone to stop talking常用于粗鲁地让某人停止说话
Shut up for a second and listen to what I have to say.闭一会儿嘴,听我必须得说的话。
b shut (someone) upinformal:to cause (someone) to stop talking, laughing, etc.使住口;使闭嘴
Nothing shuts her up.什么也不能让她住口。
2
shut up (something)orshut (something) up:to close and lock all the doors of (a house, store, etc.)关闭
They shut up the house and left town.他们把房子的门窗关好,离开了小镇。
◊ In British English, to shut up shop is to go out of business forever or stop performing all services or activities for a period of time.在英国英语中,shut up shop指暂时或永久停业。
Rather than shutting up shop [=closing up shop] entirely, the company laid off half of its workers.公司解雇了一半的员工,而不是彻底倒闭。
The store has already shut up shop for the day.商店已停业一天了。
3
shut (someone or something) up:to put (someone or something) in a place that is away from other people把…关起来
He shut himself up in his room all day to study.他一整天把自己关在房间里学习。
you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up nothing I said would shut them up
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