a)CHANGE FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHERUPto get a better job in a company, or change to a more advanced group, higher rank, or higher level 升迁,晋升;〔级别、水平等〕上升
To move up, you’ll need the right training.
想升职就需要接受适当的培训。
Share prices moved up this month.
股票价格这个月上涨了。
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The kids learn fast, and can’t wait to move up to the junior team.
这些小孩学得很快,迫不及待地想升到少年组去。
He was moving up the ladder (=getting higher and higher positions), and getting management experience.
他职位越升越高,慢慢地积累着领导的经验。
He’s moved up in the world (=got a better job or social position) in the last few years, and his new flat shows it.
他最近几年境况越来越好,他新买的公寓说明了这一点。
b)especially British EnglishBrEMOVE/CHANGE POSITIONFORWARD to change position in order to make more space for other people or things or be near someone else 〔为腾出地方而〕挪动,靠拢
There’s room for one more if everyone moves up a bit.
要是大家都挪一挪,还能挤下一个人。
Examples from the Corpus
move up• Could you guys at the frontmove up a bit?• Suddenly a car moved up alongside Joseph and the drivershouted something at him.• FC Roma are slowly moving up the leaguetable.• The bankclerks seemed to be working really slowly as I moved up the line.• With this win Williams moves up to third place in the world rankings.
move to• The track world now awaits his move up to 5,000m.• As his income grew, he moved up to a Porsche.• In his early twenties he had moved up to a suit-and-necktie job as a salesman in New York.• He pointed out that the mark also moved up to about 73. 35 yen.• I had moved up toAllocation and Repayment then, and I sent him a blisteringletter about it.• How long was it before they moved up to buying their jointcompound by the quart?• Taylor moved up to Clearwater in 1997 and was disappointing again, hitting only.244.• Then they moved up to four-cell embryos-and now the results were dismal.• Texas A&M moved up to the No. 2 position.