英语释义

1. the action of taking up

2. pick up, lift
took up the carpet

3. to begin to occupy (land)

4. to gather from a number of sources
took up a collection

5. to accept or adopt for the purpose of assisting

6. to accept or adopt as one's own
took up the life of a farmer

7. to absorb or incorporate into itself
plants taking up nutrients

8. to enter upon (something, such as a business, hobby, or subject of study)
take up skiing took up the trumpet

9. to proceed to consider or deal with
take up one problem at a time

10. to establish oneself in
took up residence in town

11. to occupy entirely or exclusively fill up
the meeting was taken up with old business

12. to make tighter or shorter
take up the slack

13. to respond favorably to (a person offering a bet, challenge, proposal, etc.)
took me up on it

14. to begin again or take over from another
we must take the good work up again

15. to make a beginning where another has left off

16. to become shortened draw together shrink

17. to engage vigorously in a defense or dispute

18. to become interested or absorbed in

19. to begin to associate or consort with

20. the rate at which something offered is accepted by people

21. to absorb or incorporate into itself
the rate at which the cells took up glucose

22. to pay the amount of (as a note) pay in full for

23. to proceed to deal with
take up a motion

英汉例句

• While the Milligas enjoyed their tea and massages, surprisingly, none of them took up an offer for ear cleaning.

  出人意料的是，在品茶和享受推拿时，他们都拒绝了掏耳朵服务。

• He saw the guest out and took up his work again.

  他把客人送出去以后又接着做他的工作。

• They took up arms and fought for their faith and liberty.

  他们拿起武器为信仰和自由而斗争。

• I took up this antique postcard, and my artistic unconscious, my sense of myself as an American, and my larger identity as a human being all powerfully converged.

  当时我拈起这张年代久远的明信片，感觉到我创作的潜意识、身为美国人的自我意识、作为人类一员具有的普遍人性汇成一股巨流。

• All this took up much of my precious time.

  这些事情占用了自己很多宝贵的时间。

• Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Libnah to Lachish; he took up positions against it and attacked it.

  约书亚和以色列众人从立拿往拉吉去，对着拉吉安营，攻打这城。

• They took up a pickpocket.

  他们捉住一个扒手。

• He took up a compromising attitude towards the question.

  他对这个问题采取了妥协的态度。

• Then the chief justice took up the question of the free territory in which Scott had lived.

  然后，首席大法官谈到了斯科特曾经在自由地区居住过的问题。

• Then he took up his quarters in a corner of my room and began to hold smoking parties with his friends, till I had to take refuge in flight from the smoke laden air.

  后来他占据了我屋子的一隅，开始和他的友人在那里聚集抽烟，最后我不得不从烟雾弥漫中溜之大吉。

• And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.

  那人当众人面前，立刻起来，拿着他躺卧的褥子回家去，归荣耀与神。

• You know I dropped medicine and took up physics.

  你知道我放弃了医学，开始学物理。

• I took up psychology and sociology, and knew clearly I was cutting off my relationship with all those men I love.

  我捡起心理学和社会学，清楚地知道我是在和所有这些我爱过的男人断绝关系。

• Moreover, there was dismay, as I, the head of a respected and technically exacting health agency, took up the challenge.

  此外，也有人对我——作为受人尊敬且技术严格的卫生机构的负责人——接受此项挑战而感到惊愕。

• I recently took up playing badminton a lot and played it almost every day.

  我最近突然开始对羽毛球感兴趣了，几乎每天都去打。

• We took up this task as a challenge and analyzed how to implement our solution.

  我们从事了这个具有挑战性的任务，并分析了实现我们的解决方案的方法。

• What I shall do in coming weeks is to look at how all of this actually works, how Marxists took up the baton and what the consequences of it all were.

  我将在接下来几周内考察一下这一切究竟是如何进行的，马克思主义者是如何拾起了指挥棒，又产生了何种后果。

• I took up meditation - recommended for tension headaches, because I suspected that my migraines increased when I was under stress.

  我开始练习冥想-建议针对紧张性头痛，因为我怀疑我一到紧张的时候偏头痛就会发作。

• After having somewhat recovered her surprise, she took up the key, locked the door, and went upstairs into her chamber to recover herself; but she could not, she was so much frightened.

  从震惊之中回过点神来后，她拿起钥匙，锁好门，上楼回到她的房间去复原；但是她做不到，她太害怕了。

• He took up writing after graduation.

  毕业后他开始从事写作。

• Physiotherapy had become a crucial necessity and as a result of the continuous costs incurred, my mother took up the task to administer physiotherapy as well as stand in as my caretaker.

  理疗成为至关重要的部分，因此导致持续的花费。我妈妈肩负起了实施理疗的任务，同时，还兼顾我的护理工作。

• Then he took up the false child and Moth took the baby and together they left the house and stepped back into the world.

  然后，他抱起假孩子，莫丝抱着婴儿，他们俩一起离开房子，再次步入到这个世界。

• But then she took up a CBS executive's offer to visit the toy showroom.

  然而后来，她接受了CBS一位行政主管的请求，邀请她参观一下他们的玩具展示厅。

• Then I took up again the thread by asking what was the attitude of the Soviet Republic to the small nations who had split off the Russian Empire and had proclaimed their independence.

  随后我挑起了苏维埃共和国对那些脱离沙皇俄国并宣布独立的小国是什么态度的话题。

• I took up running and yoga after years of sedentary living.

  在多年久坐的生活后，我开始跑步和练瑜伽。

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