变危急；加剧；加热

hitting up───请求

totting up───v.合计

bottling up───隐藏，克制；装入瓶中控制，严密封锁

chatting up───搭讪

shooting up───射出；发芽；暴涨；迅速成长

shutting up───住口；关闭；妥藏起来

booting up───启动

cutting up───采伐

fitting up───组对，装配；初组装

really hotting up in the election campaign.───竞选活动的确日益激烈了。

Thank you, Grandma, for hotting up my soup!───谢谢奶奶把我的汤加热了！

Her mother is hotting up the milk.───她妈妈正在给牛奶加热。

In Britain, the debate is already hotting up, in no small part due to the legacy left by Brown to David Cameron.───在英国，辩论已经明显升温，相当一部分原因是关于布朗留给大卫卡梅隆的这个后遗症。

Just as internal party politics are hotting up, the dividing lines between parties are blurring.───正如党内政治日趋白热化，各个政党之间的分界线正变得模糊不清。

With only a week to go before the election things are really hotting up.───还有一个星期就要进行选举，一切越来越紧张了。

The battle is hotting up because this year the smartphone market is the only game in town.───争战之所以升温，是因为智能手机市场是今年唯一的增长点。

The worst east-west row for more than two decades may have stopped hotting up, but it is not cooling off much.───二十年来最严重的东西方之间的冲突或许停止了进一步激化的脚步，但并未就此平息。

He added that competition among equipment vendors was hotting up, with companies starting to fight price wars.───他补充表示，设备供应商之间的竞争在加剧，各家公司在开始打价格战。

The competition is really hotting up now.

Things were hotting up but he just couldn't think what to do next, without getting into trouble.

The pace is hotting up.

The title race is certainly hotting up.

With only a week to go before the election things are really hotting up.

By 1986 things were hotting up a bit.

Things are really hotting up in the election campaign.

The pace of reforms to working practices is also hotting up.

The competition between the two companies is hotting up at last.