line up• They lined the prisoners up and shot them.• The guard ordered us to line up by the wall.• The horses were being lined up for the start of the race.• He lined the dolls up from tallest to shortest.• He lined up the plates on the table in front of them.• Christopher and the other children lined up to receive their awards.
got ... lined up• Look what we've got lined up.• Somehow Price had found their place, and Corporal Petrossian with his mania for detail had got the platoon lined up correctly.
1DSthe players in a sportsteam who play in a particular game 〔出赛的〕运动员阵容
This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).
这是他进入首发阵容的第一场比赛。
2GROUP OF PEOPLEa group of people, especially performers, who have agreed to be involved in an event 全体参与人员〔尤指表演者〕
The line-up included top bands Prodigy and Radiohead.
参加演出的有顶级乐队“神童乐队”和“电台司令”。
3ARRANGE A MEETING, EVENT ETCa number of events or programmes arranged to follow each other 一系列项目[节目]
a wonderful line-up of programmes for Christmas and the New Year
圣诞节和新年的一系列精彩节目
4.especially American EnglishAmESC a row of people who stand in front of a witness to a crime, who is then asked if he or she recognizes any of them as the criminal 〔待目击者辨认的〕一排嫌疑犯SYN British English identification parade
Examples from the Corpus
line-up• This was an unfamiliarForestline-up.• CBS has a great Wednesday night line-up.• Andy hadn't a care in the world as he joked with a star-packed line-up of players.• Second placed Sutton also name their most powerfulline-up at home to Wavertree, for whom skipper Ian Morley returns.• It's all part of an incredible £40,000 prizeline-up.• In the evening, the names of those who had been picked from the line-up were read out over the camptannoy.• Cordell may not be in the line-up for tonight's game.• I stuck it till my teeth began to scream and then I ducked out of the line-up and no one noticed I'd gone.• The line-up of performers includes Cher and Garth Brooks.• Just look at this winningline-up!
starting line-up• In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire.• Bjornbye was immediately drafted into the party and could make a surpriseappearance in the starting line-up at left back.• And he found himself in the starting line-up when topscorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu.• Was this his first match in the starting line-up?• Andy Payton was in the starting line-up with Stuart Ripley on the substitutes' bench.• And a hamstringinjury has put skipper Ellery Hanley out of the starting line-up against Rovers.
line up• They lined the prisoners up and shot them.• The guard ordered us to line up by the wall.• The horses were being lined up for the start of the race.• He lined the dolls up from tallest to shortest.• He lined up the plates on the table in front of them.• Christopher and the other children lined up to receive their awards.
got ... lined up• Look what we've got lined up.• Somehow Price had found their place, and Corporal Petrossian with his mania for detail had got the platoon lined up correctly.