| 单词 | take up |
| 释义 | take up transitive verb 1. a. < took up the morning paper and left the room > < take up longhandled nets and go forth into the salt marshes — Hugh Cave > : lift, raise < take her up tenderly — Thomas Hood †1845 > b. < took the carpets up each spring > < city was taking the old streetcar tracks up > < noise of workers taking up the street > c. < first time he had taken up his pen in days > < private gentlemen who had taken up arms against the king — H.E.Scudder > < take up the life of some eminent public man … often an autobiography — G.M.Young > d. < train stops on signal to take up passengers > 2. 3. < chartered or, as they then called it, taken up for the voyage — Manchester Guardian Weekly > < told that all available accommodation was taken up — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) > as a. < new industries to start … and new land to take up — F.D.Roosevelt > < have taken up the fertile plains and valleys — A.L.Kroeber > < first taken up for sheep in 1882, it was abandoned twenty years later — George Farwell > b. < scalpers took all available tickets up > c. < arranged to take up a new loan > d. e. < take up a collection > < take up contributions > f. < has his license taken up by the policeman who issues the summons — New York Times > < authorization from the attorney general to take up the alien's border-crossing identification card — U.S. Code > 4. < is taken up by the daughter of the college's athletic director — K.S.Davis > < rabble-rousing broadcaster … who was taken up by rich men and conservative politicians — Elmer Davis > < amazed at the suddenness with which you will be taken up by the best people — New Republic > < the universities were taking him up — Times Literary Supplement > 5. a. < took up the practice of walking to work > < took up the use of toothbrush, nail file, clothes brush — Dixon Wecter > < outline style also was taken up and modified by the Court artists — O. Elfrida Saunders > < Latin accentual verse did not take up the principle of regularity — H.O.Taylor > b. < ready to take up an active and aggressive attitude to any … problem — J.H.Plumb > < no suggestion in his work … that corruption is an affectation taken up in order to astonish the bourgeoisie — Roger Fry > c. < the elastic roller thus takes up the color from the pores of the wood — Scribner's > < plants generally take up nitrogen as nitrates — C.B.Palmer > < invading yeast was taken up by the phagocytic cells — Immunity > 6. a. < took up his father's trade > < disliked the subject and wished he had not taken it up > < is thinking of taking up the violin > < town … has taken up art in its old age — S.T.Williamson > : engage in < passengers streamed off … to take up their daily chores — H.A.Smith > b. < effect is to compel Congress to take up one industrial situation at a time — T.W.Arnold > < expected his case to be taken up at the next session > c. < his next lecture would take up early Christian art > < takes up again a situation he dealt with … more than forty years — Paul Pickrel > d. < a reputation for taking up unpopular causes > 7. < author should not take up his reviewer on matters of judgment — Patric Dickinson > < before she could take him up for it the door … opened — H.L.Davis > 8. a. < restored emperor took up his residence at the “eastern capital” — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > < was invited to take up his abode in the town — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > < took up quarters in an abandoned schoolhouse > < studied in Italy, returning to take up a canonry — S.F.Mason > < would return ready and equipped to take up jobs — Lamp > b. < only exit was taken up with two bicycles and a baby carriage > < spoken programs … take up more than 70 percent of our radio time — Americas > < afternoons that are not taken up with baptisms or visits — Frank Hamilton > < darkness … which takes up the largest area in his pictures — C.W.H.Johnson > c. < had been reading it to himself, and … seemed all taken up with it — Dorothy C. Fisher > < ideas, interests, and occupations that take up the attention of the community — Edward Sapir > < is too much taken up with the children — Rachel Henning > 9. a. b. < take up the slack in a rope > < take up stirrup leathers > < take a brake cable up > c. < take a dropped stitch up > d. < take up lost motion in a machine bearing > 10. < had been taken up for crap shooting — R.M.Lovett > < Jews were also taken up in the streets and trams — Manchester Guardian Weekly > 11. < men threaten a strike and … he invites them to try running the company … they take him up — Robert Hatch > < bragging kid who made a pass at me … was scared half to death when I took him up on it — James Jones > 12. < your turn to take up the tale — John Buchan > < another band took up the tune — Elsie Singmaster > < secretary had now joined us and took up the discussion — Oscar Handlin > : resume < took the story up again where she had left off > < should take up life vigorously again — H.A.Overstreet > 13. Scotland intransitive verb 1. dialect 2. of weather 3. a. < practitioner is often required to take up where the theorist … is obliged to leave off — K.W.Thompson > b. of a school 4. a. b. • - take up for - take up the cudgels - take up the hatchet - take up with |
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