take up
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Alternative form of take-up.
— In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
动词 v.
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To lift; to raise.; To pick up.
— I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
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To lift; to raise.; To remove (a ground or floor surface, including the bed of a road or the track of a railway).
— We're going to have to take up the floorboards.
- To lift; to raise.; To absorb (a liquid), to soak up.
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To lift; to raise.; To shorten (a garment), especially by hemming.
— If we take up the sleeves a bit, that shirt will look much better on you.
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To lift; to raise.; To tighten or wind in (a rope, slack, etc.)
— The reel automatically took up the slack.
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To occupy; to consume (space or time).
— The books on finance take up three shelves.
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To take, to assume (one’s appointed or intended place).
— She took up her post at the foot of the stairs.
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.
— I’ve taken up knitting.
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To begin functioning in (a role or position), to assume (an office).
— He took up his post as assistant director last Friday.
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To address or discuss (an issue).
— Let’s take this up with the manager.
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.).
— I never said thank you for taking up our case.
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To accept (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.) from.
— Shall we take them up on their offer to help us move?
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To join in (saying something).
— They took up the cry of their oppressed compatriots.
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To resume, to return to something that was interrupted.
— Let’s take up where we left off.
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To implement, to employ, to put into use.
— So I’d imagine if they were to take up this system, or a similar system, we should be able to build quicker.
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To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class.
— You have 30 minutes for the quiz. We’ll take up the answers at 1 o'clock.
- To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To begin occupying and working (a plot of uncultivated land), to break in.
- To set about doing or dealing with (something).; To pay off, to clear (a debt, loan, mortgage, etc.).
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To arrest (a person).
— The police took up the suspect.
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To reprove or reproach (a person).
— […] he talked strangely of Mr. Law […] wearing a pair of stockings that a ploughman would not have picked off a dunghill; upon which last expression I took him up for saying that Mr. Law carried his expression beyond truth, when he himself exposed what he thought wrong with so much vivacity, and Dr. Hartley said that he thought there I had him; […]
- To begin to support or patronize, to sponsor (a person), to adopt as protégé.
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