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单词 round someone/thing up
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round someone/thing up

1Drive or collect a number of people or animals together for a particular purpose: in the afternoon the cows are rounded up for milking...
  • I know monkeys and animals are rounded up or bred away from their natural habitats and countries for experiments in the pursuit of profit.
  • The animals will be rounded up and sold at auction.
  • Sheep are wandering all over the moors in search of the best grazing, making it almost impossible for shepherds to round them up and encouraging more farmers to take advantage of higher lamb prices and sell up, meaning even fewer sheep.
1.1Arrest a number of people: the secret police rounded up the group...
  • That slaying remains such a tinderbox issue that the police and prosecutors only reluctantly confirmed for the first time today that some 12 suspects had been rounded up this month and more arrests were pending.
  • Eventually she and her other two brothers were rounded up by the police for interrogation by the usual methods, but this is only hinted at, not described.
  • There were dramatic pictures that came out of there, of the police rounding these people up.
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