美 [seks ʌp]
性感化：指通过选择性的展示使某物更具性感吸引力。自2003年以来，它被用来表示通过选择性的展示使某物比实际更具吸引力；这是对短语“hyped up”的现代更新。另一种变体是“sex it up”。这意味着没有实际的谎言，但是在信息的某些部分上进行了修饰。
sex up // [ sexing sexed sexes ]
动词词组 To sex something up means to make it seem more attractive or interesting than it actually is. 包装
Nintendo is sexing up its U.S. advertising to launch the new handheld device.
任天堂公司正包装它在美国的广告以推出新的掌上设备。
give erotic or sexy character to
同义词： eroticize
The profession is trying to sex up its image.
这个行业正在设法使自身形象更加吸引人。
Her publisher wants her to spice up her stories with sex.
她的出版商想要她用色情给她的故事增添趣味。
There was the failed single-sex experiment in California, where six school districts used generous state grants to set up separate boys' and girls' academics in the late 1990s.
上世纪90年代末，加州有6个学区利用大量州政府拨款为男女学生分开设立了高校，但这一单性教学实验失败了。
The question of why a boy might prefer one sort of sticker, and you might get a different response with a girl, is going to come up later when we discuss different theories of sex differences.
至于为什么男孩偏爱一类贴纸,而女孩偏好另一类贴纸的问题,等稍后我们讨论两性差异的不同理论时,再进行解释
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Sure, Morgan is trying to push his violence and sex up a notch in the book.
The banana boots Connolly used to wear on stage to "sex up" his image now sit in a glass cabinet at the local museum, "The People's Palace, " in Glasgow.
Prozac's least-popular side effect is a diminished sex drive, and when patients complain to their doctors, they often end up taking Wellbutrin, which can heat the sex drive back up, in addition to Prozac.