Фразовый глагол недели: to come up

Значения: 1) подходить, приближаться (к кому-либо)

Синонимы: to draw near, to approach

Пример: You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now. (Mira Sorvino)

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck. (Claud Cockburn)

2) появляться, возникать, упоминаться (в разговоре), представляться (о случае, возможности), всплывать, случаться

Синонимы: to manifest itself, to appear, to arise, to occur, to be mentioned

Пример: If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up. (Robert Brault)

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up. (Deepak Chopra)

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. (Clint Eastwood)

3) (with smth) предложить (план, проект), придумать, выдумать

Синонимы: to think up, to devise, to contrive, to propose, to suggest, to improvise

Пример: Have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it. (Charles Lazarus)

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break. (Earl Wilson)

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. (Roger Von Oech)

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. (Malcolm Gladwell)

4) всходить, в(о)сходить, подниматься над горизонтом (о солнце, луне, звездах)

Синоним: to rise

Пример: I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising.... It's so splendid to see the morning sun coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine. (L.M. Montgomery)

5) (to) равняться, соответствовать, сравняться с (чем-либо/кем-либо)

Синонимы: to be equal to, to meet, to comply with, to answer, to fit, to satisfy, to correspond

Пример: In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. (Thorstein Veblen)

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either. They nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think. (L.M. Montgomery)

6) преуспеть, возвыситься, вырасти (в чьих-либо глазах, мнении)

Синонимы: to make one's way in the world, to dominate, to surpass, to rise in smb.'s estimation

Пример: I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way. (J. C. Penney)

7) (against) натолкнуться (на что-либо), столкнуться (с чем-либо/кем-либо)

Синонимы: to collide with, to bump into, to come across, to be confronted, to face, to be faced (with), to encounter

Пример: You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. (Star Trek)

Проверьте себя:

In order to beat the drop in sales, the project manager needs to come up

1. against the board of directors.
2. with a unique new product.
3. to the customers’ expectations.

Правильный ответ на нашу предыдущую «проверку» - вариант А.