train up and train

Train: 訓練 (verb)
- to teach someone the skills of a particular job or activity
- to teach a child or an animal to do something or to behave correctly
- to prepare for a sports event or tell someone how to prepare for it


Train up: 培訓,培養 (phrasal verb)

If someone trains you up, they teach you new skills or give you the necessary preparation so that you will reach the standard required for a particular job or activity. (British Informal English)

Quote from the Bible: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” – Proverb:22:6

The first companies to go in took a policy of employing East Germans and training them up...

He usually preferred to train up a crew of enthusiastic young sailors from scratch.

Comment: (愚見)
What is the difference? They seem almost the same. The emphasis is on the preposition “up”. It involves from the ground up, from scratch. Train up 比較時間長.例如: 從學徒的身分做起, 像往時做銀行工作, 從低層直到高層, 有如爬樓梯, 續級續級上,不像現在公司不肯廢時間資源從低層訓練培養.

Train Up

train的意思是培訓或訓練去學習一些技能或必須認識和要懂的事物或工作。

train up的意思是提昇一個人的技能和水平達至某一個比他現時更高或更精的目的。

這些phrasal verb可以查一些專門的詞典或網上phrasal verb大全的。

train up 同 train 有咩分別?

Up : 徹底地, 完全地Train: 訓練, 培訓Train up : 徹底地訓練, 完全地培訓The firm trained its employees. 公司培訓員工。The firm trained up its employees to be efficient. 公司徹底地培訓員工的辦事效率。