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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 come up
 上來,上樓;被提出討論,發生,中選,接近;長出,發芽;出現,發生

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 come up
      v 1: bring forth, usually something desirable; "The committee
           came up with some interesting recommendations"
      2: occur; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"
         [syn: arise]
      3: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach
         something or somebody; "He came singing down the road";
         "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out
         of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn: come] [ant:
         go]
      4: come to the surface [syn: surface, rise up, rise]
      5: originate or come into being; "aquestion arose" [syn: arise,
          bob up]
      6: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the
         forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise,
          lift, arise, move up, go up, uprise] [ant: descend]
      7: be mentioned; "These names came up in the discussion"
      8: start running, functioning, or operating; "the lights went
         on"; "the computer came up" [syn: go on, come on]
         [ant: go off]
      9: get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found
         this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got
         hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman
         got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent
         letter" [syn: line up, get hold, find]
      10: come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun
          uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
          [syn: rise, uprise, ascend] [ant: set]
      11: gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She
          had scraped together enough money for college" [syn: scrape,
           scrape up]
      12: gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do
          something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your
          courage" [syn: muster, rally, summon, muster up]