| 词组 | clear up |
| 释义 | clear up 1. clear up • clear up sth • clear sth up BrE to put things back where they are usually kept and make a place clean and tidy, especially after a meal, party etc: ▪ Let's clear up as quickly as possible and then watch the film on TV. clear up the mess BrE ▪ I went through to the front room to clear up the mess. clear up after sb (=make a place clean and tidy after someone else has made it dirty and untidy) ▪ I'm tired of clearing up after other people all the time! ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑tidy up BrE 2. clear up sth • clear sth up to solve a problem or deal with a disagreement or a situation in which people have become confused: ▪ Talks continued late into the night in an effort to clear up the remaining difficulties. ▪ Why don't you phone him and clear up the confusion? ▪ There are various problems of organization that still need to be cleared up. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑sort out 3. clear up sth • clear sth up to find an explanation for something that is strange and hard to understand: ▪ Officials have been unable to clear up the mystery of how the ship caught fire. ▪ The case was never cleared up completely and no one knows what happened to the man suspected of her murder. ■ SIMILAR TO: solve 4. clear up • clear up sth • clear sth up if an illness or infection clears up, or if medicine clears it up, it gets better and disappears: ▪ Keep taking the antibiotics and the infection should clear up within a week. ▪ The doctor prescribed a cream which will help to clear it up. 5. the weather clears up/it clears up if the weather clears up, it stops raining and becomes more pleasant: ▪ If the weather clears up, why don't we go to the beach this afternoon? ▪ The weather forecast said that it would clear up later in the day. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑brighten up |
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