美 [praɪz ʌp]
（用力）抬起，拔起
（费力地）挖掘，探索
Give me a pivot, I can prize up the earth.
给我一个支点，我可以橇起整个地球。
She stepped up to receive her prize.
她走上前去领奖。
Everyone clapped us when we went up to get our prize.
我们上前领奖时，大家都为我们鼓掌。
Wearing a Canada team sweatshirt, a woolen cap and sunglasses, she picked up the gold medal, snapped a photograph and turned over the prize to see the back.
VOA : standard.2010.02.16
He was up for the Nobel Prize in medicine and in literature; didn't get either one of them; didn't get the prize in medicine because Albert Einstein-- Everybody loves Albert Einstein.
他曾获得过诺贝尔医学奖和文学奖的提名;,但却都未能最终获奖;,没能获得诺贝尔医学奖则是因为爱因斯坦-,大家都喜欢爱因斯坦。
心理学导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
One year we actually had something like forty-two people signed up, and the course was much bigger, and we thought they all thought they were getting a free prize or something for signing up, there were so many of them.
有一年还真有,大概四十二个学生选了这课,那课堂大多了,当时我们觉得那些学生,是不是觉得选课能有奖励还是什么的,总之人特别多
1871年后的法国课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Ms. TATIANA DIVENS (Nobel Enthusiast and Freelance Writer): The chances of the West picking up a Nobel Prize in Peace are up there with the fact that I will get the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
The prize rewards up to three candidates that have made an outstanding contribution to the development of knowledge and society through art, teaching and research in the social sciences and humanities.
With the three large powers racing to moon it will be interesting to see if the spirit of cooperation will pervade if such a revolutionary and potentially lucrative prize is up for grabs.