| 释义 |
take up (or pick up) the batonAccept a particular duty or responsibility: it was left to the capital’s campuses to take up the baton...- This time last year, another past student, Ruth Maloney, took up the baton as musical director for such school productions and has done a wonderful job.
- This year, people in 23 other locations around the country took up the baton and organised Goal Miles in their own locality.
- Their father was a great loss but we were all delighted when Elaine and John decided to take up the baton.
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