mop up
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To clean up (liquid) with a mop, rag, sponge, or other cleaning device.
— Please mop up the spilled milk.
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To fix problems; to correct or repair.
— After they argued, it fell to me to talk to her and try to mop up.
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To absorb the leftovers of a dish with bread etc., in order to eat them.
— He mopped up the sauce with the bread and scarfed it down like he had been raised by wolves.
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To consume or get rid of an excess of something.
— The function of the weak acid component of a buffer is to act as a source of H⁺ ions which can mop up any added OH⁻: HA + OH⁻ → A⁻ + H₂O
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To clean up an area destroyed by a natural disaster or by violent activity.
— Crew members or leaders of a 20-person organized inter-agency hotshot suppression crew build firelines, conduct burnout operations, and mop up after the fire using chainsaws and hand tools such as Pulaskis and shovels.
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To finish something off; to apply a finishing touch
— They patch up, mop up, neaten up the halfcooked and unsatisfactory ideas they find lying around in their head.
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To get rid of (enemies) within a certain area.
— No good trying to charge with them. They'd just squeal and bolt, and there are more than enough of these filthy horse-boys to mop up our lot on the flat.
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To win a competition decisively.
— John Willment, a Ford distributor in Middlesex, imported a Holman & Moody-prepared Galaxie and – you may recall – let it loose among the 3.8 Jaguar racing contingent. WHAM! It mopped up everything in sight.
- To pitch the final innings especially of a game that is no longer close.
词源
mop + up
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