phrasal verbphr vBBTPEto make prices, costs etc rise quickly 迫使〔价格、成本等〕快速上升
The oil shortage drove gas prices up by 20 cents a gallon.
石油短缺使得每加仑油价上涨了20美分。
Examples from the Corpus
drive up• People panicked when it was cold and it drove the market up.• There were a lot of cars parked in the drive and up and down the road.• I drove slowly up the road, not wishing to overtake the whitepolice car.• His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the winddrove him up the slope.• S. policydrives the mullahs up the wall.• He drove her up to Fordham Road.• They told me to get in the squad car and we drove right up to it.• Depending on where your drive ends up you will face a trickysecondshot to a long, narrowgreen.