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well up

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  1. To gradually or steadily flow upwards or outwards so as to begin to fill or overflow something. (intransitive) · Oil was welling up out of the borehole.· As soon as I heard news of his death, tears started to well up in my eyes.
  2. To accumulate within one, to the point of overwhelming one. (figuratively) · Emotion welled up inside me.
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“I’d rather not pass at all than not come out pretty well up on the list,” flashed Anne, by which she meant--and Diana knew she meant--that success would be incomplete and bitter if she did not come out ahead of Gilbert Blythe.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第271页 · C1
“We’re well up with the times in Sussex.
《The Valley of Fear》,第34页 · C1
I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes.
《A Study in Scarlet》,第4页 · B2
Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally.
《A Study in Scarlet》,第15页 · B2

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