lead up to

英 [liːd ʌp tu]

美 [liːd ʌp tu]

（一系列事件）导致，致使，引致; （时间）临近，紧挨在…之前; （把谈话）引向（某个话题）

柯林斯词典

See also:Alan Tomlinson has reconstructed the events that led up to the deaths...They had a series of arguments, leading up to a decision to separate.lead-up
PHRASAL VERB （时间）临近，紧挨在…之前
The period of timeleading up toan event is the period of time immediately before it happens.
1. ...the weeks leading up to Christmas.
  圣诞节前的几个星期
PHRASAL VERB （把谈话）引向（某个话题）
If someoneleads up toa particular subject, they gradually guide a conversation to a point where they can introduce it.
1. I'm leading up to something quite important.
  我正要谈到相当重要的部分。

双语例句

Instead of including that paragraph, she added one that described Lengel's crabbed response to the girls so that she could lead up to the A& P "policy" he enforces.
这一段描述了Lengel对女孩子的回答尖酸刻薄，这样她就把话题引向了他强调的A&P政策。
In the perfect chess combination as in a first-rate short story, the whole plot and counter-plot should lead up to a striking finale, the interest not being allayed until the very last moment.
完美的象棋组合犹如一篇第一流的短篇故事，正反双方应该导致一场最后的战斗终曲，直到最后那刻之前，趣味始终高涨。
They had a series of arguments, leading up to a decision to separate.
他们经过连番争吵后决定分居。
I'm leading up to something quite important.
我正要谈到相当重要的部分。
In the lead up to World Health Day, WHO is following the experiences of six mothers-to-be living in different countries of the world.
在世界卫生日之前，世界卫生组织正在跟踪生活在世界上不同国家的六个母亲生活情况。
Some smart businessmen have caught the business chance to lead up to develop this business zone, negotiate actively and rebuild smoothly and has got original achievements.
一些精明的商家已抓住商机，抢先进入城郊村开发这一商业领域，积极商榷并顺利展开了对部分城郊村的升级改造，且已初见成效。
In most cases, to find out the cause of the error you need to take some type of trace that will show the sequence of calls that lead up to the error.
在大多数情况下，要找出错误的起因，需要进行某种类型的跟踪，以便通过跟踪来揭示导致错误的调用序列。
As the number of hours of sunshine per day increase, and the sun's intensity reaches its peak in the lead up to summer, we asked Dr.
随着每天日照时间的延长以及阳光强度的增加，我们有必要对夏季的肌肤安全引起重视，为此我们采访了Alberta大学的皮肤病教授Dr。
Assuming that you want to measure this steady-state performance, you need to understand all the factors that lead up to it.
假设希望度量稳定状态下的性能，就需要了解影响这个过程的所有因素。
The different mode of thinking between the Western people and Chinese people lead up to the different form of expression between English and Chinese.
西方人和中国人思维方式的不同导致了英汉两种语言表达形式的不同。