take up
- 占用，花费（时间、空间或精力）;占领，占据，占有（位置、阵地）;接受，答应（提议或挑战）;继续;开始从事;开始处理;喜欢上;开始干（工作）;讨论…的处理方法;把…接着进行下去;拿起来
take uptake up
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PHRASAL VERB 开始从事;喜欢上
If you take up an activity or a subject, you become interested in it and spend time doing it, either as a hobby or as a career.He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport...
他并不特别想从事竞技体育运动。
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PHRASAL VERB 开始处理;讨论如何处理
If you take up a question, problem, or cause, you act on it or discuss how you are going to act on it.Mr de Garis's MP, Max Madden, took up the case...
德加里斯先生的下议员马克斯·马登开始着手处理这个问题。
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PHRASAL VERB 开始从事，开始干(工作)
If you take up a job, you begin to work at it.He will take up his post as the head of the civil courts at the end of next month.
他将在下个月底就任民事法庭庭长一职。
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PHRASAL VERB 接受，答应(提议或挑战)
If you take up an offer or a challenge, you accept it.Increasingly, more wine-makers are taking up the challenge of growing Pinot Noir...
越来越多的酿酒商开始接受种植黑皮诺葡萄的挑战。
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PHRASAL VERB 占用，花费(时间、空间或精力)
If something takes up a particular amount of time, space, or effort, it uses that amount.I know how busy you must be and naturally I wouldn't want to take up too much of your time...
我知道您肯定特别忙，我当然不想占用您太多的时间。
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PHRASAL VERB 占领，占据，占有(位置、阵地)
If you take up a particular position, you get into a particular place in relation to something else.He had taken up a position in the centre of the room...
他占据了房间中心的位置。
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PHRASAL VERB 继续;把…接着进行下去
If you take up something such as a task or a story, you begin doing it after it has been interrupted or after someone else has begun it.Gerry's wife Jo takes up the story...
格里的妻子乔接着往下讲。
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See also:take-up
verb
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- pursue or resume
- take up a matter for consideration
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- return to a previous location or condition
- The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it
- Synonym: resume
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- adopt
- take up new ideas
- Synonym: latch on fasten on hook on seize on
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- take up as if with a sponge
- Synonym: take in sop up suck in
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- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- scoop the sugar out of the container
- Synonym: scoop scoop out lift out scoop up
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- take in, also metaphorically
- The sponge absorbs water well
- She drew strength from the minister's words
- Synonym: absorb suck imbibe soak up sop up suck up draw take in
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- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- Synonym: sorb
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- accept
- The cloth takes up the liquid
- Synonym: take in
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- occupy or take on
- He assumes the lotus position
- She took her seat on the stage
- We took our seats in the orchestra
- She took up her position behind the tree
- strike a pose
- Synonym: assume take strike
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- take up and practice as one's own
- Synonym: adopt borrow take over
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- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- Take up a position
- start a new job
- Synonym: start
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- turn one's interest to
- He took up herpetology at the age of fifty
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- take up time or space
- take up the slack
数据来源：WordNet
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He was eager to take up some job .
他热切的要开始从事一些工作。
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Getting industry to take up " good science " is a key driver behind Sahajwalla 's work .
使工业开始从事“有益科学”是沙哈瓦拉工作背后的主要动力。
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I won 't take up any more of your time .
我不再占用你的时间了。
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How much disk space will it take up ?
这会占用多少磁盘空间？
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They were not able to take up residence in their new home until the spring .
他们到第二年春天才住进了新家。
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It is not difficult to take up a new career in midlife .
人到中年开始新的事业并不难。
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The vice-president was forced to take up the reins of office .
副总统被迫走马上任。
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He left a job in the City to take up farming
他辞去伦敦商业区的工作，开始务农。
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He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport
他并不特别想从事竞技体育运动。
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Now you 're settled , why don 't you take up some serious study ?
既然你已经安顿下来了，为什么不开始正经地学点东西呢？
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He left a career in teaching to take up a position with the Arts Council
他辞去教学工作到艺术委员会任职。
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She has the intellectual form to take up the mantle of leadership .
她具备担当领导职责的聪明才智。
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The aim was not to take up valuable time with the usual boring pictures .
目的在于不要用常见的无聊图片占用宝贵时间。
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UN peacekeeping forces are expected to take up positions along the border .
联合国维和部队估计会在边界线上就位。
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It can take up to six months before reimbursements are paid .
最长要等6个月才能得到赔付。
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They threatened to take up arms against the government if their demands were not met .
他们威胁，如果要求得不到满足就要以武力抵抗政府。
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I know how busy you must be and naturally I wouldn 't want to take up too much of your time
我知道您肯定特别忙，我当然不想占用您太多的时间。
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As soon as the police disappear the violence will take up from where it left off .
警察一走，暴力事件就会死灰复燃。
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After the hasty meal , the men had moved forward to take up their positions .
匆匆忙忙吃过饭后，大家走出来，各就各位。
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Take up a relaxing hobby , such as knitting .
培养一种能放松身心的爱好，比如编织。
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He will take up his post as the head of the civil courts at the end of next month .
他将在下个月底就任民事法庭庭长一职。
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Dr Mahathir intends to take up the proposal with the prime minister
马哈蒂尔博士打算和首相讨论这个提案。
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Carpet tiles are perfect for kitchens because they 're easy to take up and wash
方块地毯非常适用于厨房，因为其便于揭起来清洗。
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Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue
能够提供环境威胁证据的大多数科学家都有理由认为，环保团体不会放过这个问题。
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Mr Fay is to take up an appointment as a researcher with the Royal Society .
费伊先生将担任皇家学会研究员的职务。
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He lifted the end of the canoe , nodding to me to take up mine .
他一边抬起独木舟的一端，一边扬头示意我抬起我这端。
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Whoever decides to take up the gauntlet and challenge the Prime Minister will have a tough battle .
谁要是接受挑战，向首相叫板，都将经历一场鏖战。
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She moved out of 28 Barbary Lane to take up residence in a house in Pacific Heights .
她从巴巴里街28号搬出来，住进了太平洋高地住宅区的一所房子。
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He will be able to take up his normal routine shortly .
他不久就能处理日常事务。
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He was not one to retreat but rather one who would take up the gauntlet .
他不是一个想退却的人，倒是一个宁愿应战的人。