| 释义 |
take someone up on1Challenge or question a speaker on (a particular point): the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation...- But I have to take you up on your question - your question to Frank Rich.
2Accept (an offer or challenge) from someone: I’d like to take you up on that offer...- I realized how stupid I was acting and decided to take him up on the offer, silently accepting the pudding snack.
- Fortunately, I don't have time to take her up on her offer, so Amherst audiences were mercifully spared.
- You know we've been sitting here all day just waiting for some handsome cowboy to come save us and you know not a one has took us up on the offer.
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