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旋元祐Time时代杂志核心短语 动词短语16:hole up

hole up

躲起来

hole up字面意思是「挖个洞躲在裹面」,引申「躲起来」。意思很容易理解,也相富传神。

At about 2:30 the next morning,a white van loaded with special police units in stocking masks and jeans roared up to the leafy compound where the ex-strongman [Slobodan Milosovic] had been holed upsince last fall.(出自:TIME, Apr. 9,2001,p. 21)

第二天凌晨大约两点半时,一辆白色厢型车,里面满载戴着丝袜 头罩、穿着牛仔裤的警察特勤组,大声疾驰到那块林木蓊郁的建 筑群,前强人〔米洛塞维奇〕从去年秋天以来就一直躲在这里。