a)match somebody/something ↔ upLIKE/SIMILAR to put two people or things together that are related to or suitable for each other 把…〔和…〕配对起来
The employment agency exists to match up graduates and IT companies.
这家职业介绍所就是给毕业生和信息技术公司搭桥的。
match somebody/something ↔ up with
My mother spent her life trying to match me up with various women.
我母亲把时间都花来张罗各种各样的女人给我认识。
b)SAMEif two things match up, they seem the same or are connected in some way 相似,相同,相一致
Their accounts just don’t match up.
他们的说法根本不一致。
with
The DNA samples found on her body did not match up with a sample taken from the accused.
从她尸体上找到的DNA样本和被告的样本不匹配。
c)match up to somebody’s hopes/expectations/ideals etcSUCCEED IN DOING something to be as good as you hoped, expected etc 符合某人的希望/期待/理想等SYN measure up to
Unfortunately, the product’s performance did not match up to the manufacturer’s promise.
遗憾的是,产品的性能和生产商的承诺并不相符。
Examples from the Corpus
match up• I've questioned both suspects and so far their stories just don't match up. One of them must be lying.• You must make sure that your salesfiguresmatch up with your receipts at the end of each week.
match with• Somehow a little business in Deptford didn't quite match up with his own ideas of McCloy's origins.• Underwood and Carling's tissue types will be stored on computer until they can be matched up withsomebody who needs them.• GreenBay has a bunch of 300-pounddefensivelinemen, and I think they can match up with the Dallas offensive line.• It wouldn't fit into the sequence, it wouldn't match up with the ledger.• This almost exactly matches up with the periodicvariationpresent in the Mercury-transit data.• But we will match up with them a little better.• How did the particular teachermentionedabovematch up with this list? 1,3, 5,6 and 7?