phrasal verbphr vto make someone become very excited, interested, or angry 激发;使发怒
It was alarming the way she got so fired up about small things.
她对一些小事情也发这么大的火,真是令人担忧。
nGrammar
Fire up is usually passive.
Examples from the Corpus
fire up• Many packaging materials contain highly flammable substances that could make a fire suddenly flare up.• She crossed to the fireplace, and put some more coal on the fire.• The fire sent up a hugecloud of smoke visible from San Francisco, 40 miles to the south.• You got the fire way up high.• Then, they were braking to a skiddinghalt as the toweringframework of the fire escape loomed up out of the mist.• NonimmediateLight a fire, build up the steam, turn on a switch, and a linear system awakens.• Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks; the shot must have been fired from up there.• The fire flared up with salty blue flames and the driftwoodcrackled and spat.