将“checkup”拆分为两个部分:“check”和“up”。想象一个医生或专家在做“检查”(check)的同时,从上至下(up)全面审视或评估,这样的动作形象地代表了“体检”或“检查”的意思。
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- checkup (n.)
- also check-up, "careful examination," 1921, American English, from the verbal phrase (1889), from check (v.1) + up (adv.), on notion of a checklist of things to be examined. The verbal phrase check up (on) is attested from 1889.
- 1. I had to go back for my checkup; they'd lost my X-rays.
- 我得回去再做一次体检。他们把我的X光片弄丢了。
- 2. I had a medical checkup before going abroad.
- 我在出国前作了一次体格检查.
- 3. The shopkeeper gave his store a final checkup before closing for the night.
- 店主在晚上打烊前对商店作了最后检查.
- 4. The disease was detected during a routine checkup.
- 这种疾病是在一次例行体检中查出来的。
- 5. I took him to Philip's office yesterday for a checkup.
- 我昨天带他到Philip的办公室去做检查.