| 词汇 | clean up |
| 释义 | clean upclean up phrasal verbphr v a) CLEANto make a place completely clean and tidy 打扫干净；清理 We spent all Saturday morning cleaning up. 我们整个星期六上午都在进行打扫。 clean something ↔ up plans to clean up the beaches 清理海滩的计划 after John always expects other people to clean up after him (=to make a place clean after he has used it). 约翰总是指望别人跟在他后面帮他打扫。 b) WASHto wash yourself after you have got very dirty 把〔身体〕洗干净 clean yourself up Let me just go clean myself up. 让我去洗一洗。 Dad’s upstairs getting cleaned up. 爸爸在楼上洗澡。 c) clean up your act informalBEHAVE to start behaving sensibly and responsibly 改掉不良行为 Some companies could face heavy fines if they fail to clean up their act. 一些公司如果再不纠正不良做法就要面临重罚。 d) informalPROFIT to win a lot of money or make a lot of money in a business deal 赢得一大笔钱；赚大钱 He cleaned up at the races yesterday. 他昨天在赛马场上赢了一大笔。 e) GOOD/MORAL clean something ↔ up to improve moral standards in a place or organization 肃清某事，整顿某事 → clean-up It’s high time British soccer cleaned up its image. 英国足球界该改善一下自己的形象了。 Examples from the Corpus clean up• Do you want me to help clean up?• It took us two or three days to clean it all up.• The management of some our prisons has sometimes been corrupt, and it is our job to clean it up.• Every time Jasper cooked for me, he would carefully clean up all the pans and plates he'd used.• Most clubs have made a big effort to clean up football's image.• Thanks for cleaning the place up -- I really appreciate it.• It's time someone cleaned up this city; we have one of the highest crime rates in the country. clean after• Undertakers take up the pastime in middle age, but their juniors will join in to help clean up after a disaster.• It was like cleaning up after an oil spill.• The owner then uses three tiny buttons to feed, play with, clean up after and discipline it.• He always expected other people to clean up after him.• He is cleaning up after me.• She was cleaning up after white folk as she had done in Texas, but it was a job. clean yourself up• I gave him to Nonni who was clucking round the kitchen and said I must go and clean myself up.• I went to the Betty Ford Centre and cleaned myself up.• So a part of the argument switches to the kind of incinerators you allow while industry is forced to clean itself up.• I cleaned myself up and checked out my patch, hoping I'd find that tabby trespassing.• And that annoyed me enough to drive me to my cabin, to clean myself up and choose fresh clothing.• He would have to work hard, clean himself up; change his whole image. clean up your act• Naming and shaming remains an option should the company not clean up its act.• Citibank insists it has cleaned up its act.• Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act.• More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights.• Legislation aimed at forcing the power firms to clean up their act is being fought tooth and nail by the polluters.• But he eventually sees their potential and cleans up his act just in time.• The industry was effectively warned to clean up its act or face legislation.• Gwen finally told her troubled son to clean up his act or get out of her house.• She told her son to clean up his act or move out.• Tish has really cleaned up her act - she doesn't drink or smoke pot any more.• Despite Mr Haider's grandiose, unbelievable last-minute pledges to clean up his act, there should be no wavering. cleaned up ... image• About two years ago Autobacs cleaned up its oily-rag image. → clean up at clean2(4) |
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