| 词汇 | take up |
| 释义 | take up 1. allow ( passengers, etc.) to mount; stop and accept 停车接纳乘客 * The cars took their passengers up outside the hotel. 那些汽车在旅馆外面接纳乘客。 * The bus stopped to take up passengers. 公共汽车停下来让乘客上车。 * The train stops here to take up more passengers, and then goes fast all the way to London. 火车在这里停下来，再让一些乘客上车，然后就直抵伦敦。 2. occupy (time, space, etc.) 占有（时间，空间等） * This work will take up a lot of my time. 这项工作将占去我很多时间。 * I must get rid of this large table;it takes up too much room. 我得把这个大桌子拿走，它太占地方。 * I'm sorry to have taken up so much of your valuable time. 占用了你那么多宝贵时间，真抱歉。 3. continue; resume 继续做；接着…讲 * I put the telephone down and took up the work again. 我放下电话继续工作。 * She took up her sewing after the visitor had gone. 客人走后她继续做她的针线活。 4. assume (a position, office, atti tude, etc.) 担任；承担（职位）；采取态度 * When does the new director take up his post? 新的主任什么时候走马上任？ * He will take up his new post on October 1. 他将在10月1日就任新职。 * The new president took up office yesterday. 新总统昨天就职。 * A most aggressive attitude was taken up by the next speaker. 第 2个发言人采取了非常放肆的态度。 5. adopt sth. as a profession, hobby, subject for study, etc. 从事某种职业；对某事有爱好；从事一项研究或学习 * When he left school he took up journalism. 离开学校以后，他就从事了新闻工作。 * Rich people can afford to take up whatever hobbies they like. 富人有能力从事他们所喜欢的任何爱好。 * I think I'll take up oil pointing in my spare time. 我想我将要在业余时间练习油画。 * The scientist has taken up a new subject. 这位科学家已开始研究一个新的课题。 6. pull and make tight or shorter;shorten 缩紧；减短 * The tailor took up the legs of the trousers. 裁缝把裤子改短了。 7. gather in (a contribution, etc.) ; collect 募捐；收集（钱等） * The girls will take up a collection at the end of the concert. 这些女孩子在音乐会结束后要募捐。 * All the tickets were taken up at the exit. 所有的车票都在出口处被收去了。 8. take away; lift up; raise 拿走；拿起；举起 * The driver has had his license taken up for violating traffic regulations. 因为违反交通规则，那个驾驶员的执照被吊销了。 * He took up the telephone receiver and asked a number. 他拿起电话询问一个电话号码。 9. remove by taking in 把…吸进去；溶解 * This kind of paper claims to be able to take up more liquid than any other kind. 这种纸据说比其它任何纸吸水性都强。 * The vacuum cleaner took up the dirt from the rug. 吸尘器把地毯上的灰尘吸掉了。 10. raise consideration of 提出商讨；提出考虑 * They decided to take the matter up at the plenary meeting. 他们决定在全会上把这件事提出来。 * The question of public housing should be taken up with the Minister whose responsibility it is. 公众的住房问题应该提交负责这项工作的部长考虑。 * He said he would take up my difficulties with the headmaster. 他说要把我的问题提出来和校长商量解决。 * The matter will be taken up at the next Party branch meeting. 下一次党支部会议将着手处理此事。 11. arrest 逮捕 * The police took him up on a drugs charge. 警察以吸毒的罪名逮捕了他。 * Within two hours the arsonist was taken up by the police. 纵火犯在两小时内就被警察抓住了。 12. establish oneself in 在…安居下来 * He took up his permanent residence in Beijing after graduation. 他毕业后在北京定居下来。 13. interrupt by dissent; interrupt andcorrect; rebuke; reprimand （为表示异议等）打断（某人的话）；打断并更正；指责；责备 * He took me up short on that point. 我讲到那个问题时他突然打断了我的话。 * She said something very absurd and we immediately took her up.她说了些非常荒谬的话，我们立即打断了她的话。 14. understand 理解 * Please don't take me up wrongly.请别误解我的意思。 15. adopt sb. as a protege 提携；把…当作被保护人；帮助 * Though a busy and successful nowelist, he was willing to take up any promising young writer and give him all the help he could. 虽然他是一个很忙而又很有成就的小说家，但他愿意提携任何有前途的青年作家并给予一切可能的帮助。 |
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