| 词组 | take |
| 释义 | take [took, taken, taking] be taken aback be taken aback to be surprised or shocked, especially so that for a moment you do not know what to say: ▪ Philip seemed slightly taken aback by this sudden request. ▪ Anyway, I did some radio interviews, but was quite taken aback when I found myself on the front page of the New York Times. take after take after sb to be like your mother, father, grandfather etc, because you look like them, or because you have a similar character, or similar abilities: ▪ Becky's really pretty. She takes after her mother. ▪ "You a good cook Paul?" "Of course he is. He takes after his dad, don't you Paul?" take against take against sb BrE to start to dislike someone, especially without a good reason: ▪ Bernard was engaged to a very pretty young woman, but for some reason his mother took against her. ▪ Young's boss had taken against him, describing him as "arrogant and conceited". ■ OPPOSITE: take to take along take along sb/sth • take sb/sth along to take someone or something with you when you are going somewhere: ▪ My grandmother used to visit a lady in Lakeshore Drive, and sometimes she took me along. ▪ The company sometimes lets employees to take their spouses along on business trips. ▪ Let's take a picnic along - there are some really nice places to stop. take apart 1. take sth apart to separate something into the different parts that it is made from: ▪ Danskin was taking his gun apart so that he could clean it. ▪ Gegs spent the day taking his motorbike engine apart, but he couldn't work out what was wrong with it. ■ SIMILAR TO: dismantle formal, ↑strip down ■ OPPOSITE: put together 2. take sb apart informal to attack someone cause them serious injuries: ▪ If you don't get out of here, mister, we're going to take you apart. ▪ I had beaten him in a fair fight, but no boy would admit that a girl had taken him apart. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑thrash informal 3. take sb apart informal to beat someone very easily in a game, sport, or fight: ▪ The Falcons' quarterback was injured, and the Packers took them apart. ■ SIMILAR TO: walk all over sb, ↑sweep aside 4. take sth apart if you take a room, house etc apart, you look in every part of it because you are searching for something: ▪ The police came and took the place apart, but they didn't find anything. 5. take sth apart to carefully examine what someone has written in order to consider and criticize the ideas in it: ▪ The tutor marked our assignments, and then took them apart one by one, in front of the whole class. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pull apart 6. take sb apart to criticize someone very strongly: ▪ Clinton got taken apart by the press after his affair with Monica Lewinsky. ■ SIMILAR TO: roast informal take around take sb around/round • take around/round sb to walk around a place with someone who has not been there before, and show them the most interesting and important things there: ▪ A guide took us round the palace and gardens. ▪ Ralph met Helen and Theresa at the station, and then took them around the town. ■ SIMILAR TO: show sb around take aside take sb aside to separate someone from the rest of a group, so that you can talk to them without the other people hearing: ▪ After the meeting Madame Mattli took Paula aside. "I have been watching you work," she said, "and I am very impressed." take away 1. take away sth • take sth away to remove something from where it is: ▪ Have you finished with the cookies? Shall I take them away? ▪ Cans and glass bottles are put into separate bins so that they can be taken away for recycling. + from ▪ She took her hands away from her eyes and looked again. ■ SIMILAR TO: remove 2. take away sth • take sth away to remove something that someone needs or wants, so that they do not have it any more: ▪ Building a new shopping mall would take away one of the last remaining green spaces in the area. ▪ We pray for those who have been wrongly imprisoned, and have had their freedom taken away. + from ▪ By cutting pensions, the government is taking money away from those who need it most. 3. take away sb • take sb away if someone takes you away, they force you to go somewhere with them when you do not want to go: ▪ The police came in the middle of the night and took him away. ▪ All the men in the village were killed, and the women and children were taken away. 4. take sb away to take someone with you when you go to stay in another place: ▪ I'm taking the kids away for a few days. 5. take away sth • take sth away to make a feeling or taste disappear: ▪ Joe took the medicine, then drank some orange juice to take the taste away. ▪ The nurse gave him something to take away the pain. 6. take away sth • take sth away if you take one number away from a second one, you reduce the second one by that number: ▪ 253 take away 30 is 223. +from ▪ Take $40 away from the total. ■ SIMILAR TO: subtract 7. take away sb • take sb away if something takes you away from a place or activity, it stops you from being in that place or doing that activity +from ▪ My Dad's job took him away from home a lot, and he was hardly ever there while we were growing up. ▪ All this paperwork is taking teachers away from what they should be doing - teaching the children. 8. take away sth • take sth away to learn something from an experience, and to remember what you have learnt so that it helps you in the future: ▪ I was not a very successful student, but one thing I did take away from my time at university was a great love of English literature. ▪ When a relationship breaks up, think about what you have learned about yourself, and take this away with you. 9. to take away BrE if you buy food in a restaurant to take away, you buy it to eat somewhere else: ▪ Two burgers and two teas to take away, please. ■ SIMILAR TO: to go AmE takeaway n C BrE a hot meal that you buy in a shop or restaurant and eat somewhere else: ▪ I can't be bothered to cook - let's get a takeaway. takeaway n C BrE a shop that sells hot food that you take and eat somewhere else: ▪ I'm going to the Chinese takeaway - d'you want anything? 10. take it away! spoken used to tell a group of performers, especially musicians, to start performing: ▪ And now our final number from the Delta Jazz Quartet! Take it away, boys! take away from take away from sth not progressive to make something seem less good, less impressive, less real etc: ▪ They won more easily because there weren't many other competitors, but that shouldn't take away from their achievement. ▪ Being a film critic does somehow take away from the enjoyment of going to the movies. ▪ The victim was an innocent man. No explanation by his killers can take away from that fact. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑detract from formal take back 1. take back sth • take sth back to return a book or something else to the library or shop that you borrowed it from: ▪ Can you take my library books back for me? ▪ I've got to take these videos back to Blockbuster Video before they close. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑return 2. take back sth • take sth back to return something to the shop that you bought it from, because it is unsuitable or of poor quality: ▪ These trousers are a bit small - I'll have to take them back. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑return take back sth • take sth back if a shop takes back goods that you have bought there, they agree to give you your money back because the goods are unsuitable or poor quality: ▪ They'll take it back if you've still got the receipt. 3. take back sth • take sth back to admit that you were wrong to say something: ▪ Dad leaped to his feet and glared at me, "You will take that remark back and apologize immediately!" he roared. ▪ "I don't love you any more!" she cried. Immediately she wished that she could take it back, but it was too late. ■ SIMILAR TO: retract formal 4. take sb back to make you remember a period of time in the past: ▪ That song 'Lili Marlene' takes me back a bit - we used to sing it during the war. + to ▪ The prosecutor took her back to that terrible day once more. "What did his face look like?" he asked in a hushed voice. 5. take sb back if a story, film etc takes you back to a time in the past, it is about events that happened at that time: ▪ The latest film from Merchant Ivory, takes us back to 18th century France, when Thomas Jefferson found love in pre-revolutionary Paris. 6. take back sth • take sth back to get control or possession of something again after losing it, especially by using force: ▪ In 1847, the Maya rose against the Europeans, and took back 90 percent of their ancestral lands. 7. take back sb • take sb back if you take someone back after an argument or after separating from them, you agree to let them live or work with you again: ▪ She once told me that if Reggie ever left her for another woman, she'd never take him back. ▪ "I got my old job again," she said. "Mrs James has taken me back." 8. take back sth • take sth back AmE if you wish that you could take something back, you wish that you had not done it: ▪ Are there any of her TV shows that she would take back? "Yes - the first three. They were disastrous." ▪ That one play lost us the game. I wish I could take it back. take down 1. take down sth • take sth down to remove something that is fixed to a wall: ▪ We have to take the Christmas decorations down today. ▪ The red star was replaced by a red rose, and the huge portrait of Lenin was taken down. ■ OPPOSITE: put up 2. take down sth • take sth down to remove a temporary structure by separating it into pieces: ▪ They're taking the scaffolding down tomorrow. ▪ Can you help me take the tent down? ■ SIMILAR TO: dismantle formal ■ OPPOSITE: put up 3. take down sth • take sth down to write down something that someone is saying or something that can be seen for a short time only: ▪ Let me take down your name and phone number. ▪ It it hadn't been for a sharp-eyed shopkeeper who took down the registration number of the car, the thieves might never have been caught. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑get down informal take for 1. take sb for sth to think that someone is something that they are not: ▪ I wondered if the tourists took me for a New Yorker. ▪ He had taken her for a working-class girl. Now, hearing her accent, he realized his mistake. ■ SIMILAR TO: mistake (for) 2. take sb for a fool/an idiot to treat someone as if they are stupid: ▪ "I love you, I swear. She means nothing to me," he insisted. "God, do you take me for a fool?" 3. what do you take me for? spoken used to show that you are offended because someone has treated you as if you are very stupid or a very bad person: ▪ What do you take me for! Do you think I'd leave a child to drown? ▪ You don't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that, do you? What do you take me for? take in 1. take in sth • take sth in usually negative to understand and remember facts and information: ▪ She did tell me what time we were supposed to be there, but I didn't take it in. ▪ The guide told us a lot about the place, but it was too much to take in. ▪ I'm always so sleepy when I go to classes - I can't take in very much. to understand news or information and realize its meaning and importance, especially very bad or shocking news that is difficult to believe: ▪ I had cancer. I sat staring into my cup of tea, trying to take it in. ▪ He felt weak and started shaking. Mary was speaking to him, but he did not take in the words. 2. be taken in to be completely deceived by someone or something so that you believe a lie: ▪ We were completely taken in by his charming confident manner. ▪ The advertisement looked perfectly genuine - a lot of people were taken in. ■ SIMILAR TO: be deceived, be fooled 3. take in sb • take sb in to let someone live in your home in return for payment: ▪ Annette couldn't afford to pay her mortgage any more, so she took in a lodger. take in sb • take sb in to let someone stay in your home or in your country when they have nowhere else to stay: ▪ How could you be so ungrateful! Have you forgotten how we took you in when you were homeless and looked after you? ▪ Jordan took in vast numbers of refugees from Iraq and Kuwait. 4. take in sth • take sth in to include something - use this especially about the places visited on a trip, or the activities of a business: ▪ The bike ride will take in some of the loveliest parts of the county, including Belvoir Park Forest. ▪ Not everyone is convinced that he is experienced enough to run a business that takes in 32 regional newspapers, 17 magazines, and five television networks. ▪ The Queen's tour of the Caribbean will take in the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Bermuda. ■ SIMILAR TO: include 5. take in sth • take sth in to notice all the details or qualities of something when you look at it: ▪ She felt furious with Guy as she strolled around the crowded exhibition, too preoccupied to take in much of her surroundings. ▪ The next morning the kids went on a pony ride while I stepped back and took in some of the breathtaking scenery. 6. take in sth • take sth in especially spoken to take your car to a garage, or take a broken piece of equipment to a shop to be repaired: ▪ I've got to take the car in tomorrow - there's something wrong with the exhaust. 7. take in a movie/show etc AmE to go to see a film, play etc: ▪ On Saturday night we can take in a movie and maybe get a pizza afterwards. ▪ I know they're cultured. They'd much rather take in a ballet than go to a bar. 8. take in sth • take sth in AmE to collect or earn an amount of money: ▪ How much did the store take in today? ▪ Denver International Airport must take in at least $304 million in revenues next year to cover its operating costs. 9. take in sth • take sth in to make a piece of clothing narrower so that it fits you: ▪ I've got a skirt that's quite nice, but it needs taking in. ▪ Ellie stared at the dress critically. "It wouldn't look so bad, if we took off all the frills and took the waist in a little." ■ OPPOSITE: let out 10. take in sb • take sb in if the police take you in, they make you go to a police station, because they think you know something about a crime or are guilty of one: ▪ Morris was taken in by the police and charged with armed robbery. take sb in for questioning ▪ Mrs Roxie Farmer was taken in for questioning at Royal Hill police station, but claimed she knew nothing. ■ SIMILAR TO: detain formal 11. take in air/food/water if people or animals take in air, food, or water, it goes into their bodies: ▪ Jellyfish take in air through their skin. ▪ If you take in fewer calories than your body needs, you will lose fat. intake n C the amount of food, drink etc that you take into your body: ▪ Lower your intake of fat and alcohol to improve your health. an intake of breath when you breathe in, especially suddenly because you are shocked or angry: ▪ She heard a sharp intake of breath and muttered a curse before he slammed the phone down. 12. take in washing/sewing etc to earn money by doing washing or sewing for other people in your own home: ▪ My mother took in washing, and cleaned people's houses on a casual basis. 13. take in sb • take sb in if an organization such as school, college, or hospital takes you in, they accept you as a student or patient: ▪ The college plans to take in more overseas students next year. intake n C the people who are accepted by an organization at a particular time, or the number of people accepted by an organization at a particular time: ▪ This years' intake on the diploma course is particularly good. ▪ an increase in the intake of foreign students take into 1. take sb into sth BrE if something takes you into a particular job or activity, it makes you decide to start doing it: ▪ What took you into acting in the first place? 2. take sth into the future/into the next century to make something more modern, so that it will be good and effective in the future: ▪ We are designing new buildings that will take the city into the next century. ▪ The party needs a new voice, a new vision. It needs a new leader to take it into the future. take off 1. take off sth • take sth off to remove something that you are wearing: ▪ She took her clothes off and got into bed. ▪ "Hot chocolate?" he asked Dooley, when they'd taken off their coats. ▪ I forgot to take off my make-up last night. ■ SIMILAR TO: remove ■ OPPOSITE: put on 2. take off if a plane or bird takes off, it leaves the ground and rises into the air: ▪ The plane took off into the night sky. ▪ What time does your plane take off? ▪ A dog jumped into the lake, and the ducks took off and flew over the park. ► compare ↑lift off ■ OPPOSITE: land take-off n C,U when a plane rises into the air at the beginning of a flight: ▪ We have to check in at least one hour before take-off. 3. take sth off to arrange to spend some time away from your normal work in order to have a holiday or do something else: ▪ Why don't you take some time off - you need a break. take a day/week etc off ▪ I take two weeks off every summer and go canoeing, far away from phones or any other links with the office. take Monday, Tuesday etc off ▪ I'm taking Thursday off to go Christmas shopping. 4. take off to suddenly start being successful: ▪ Handler was a young actor whose career was just about to take off. ▪ Internet shopping will really take off when people become convinced that it's safe to type in their credit card numbers. take-off n U when a product, business, industry etc starts being successful: ▪ An agricultural revolution took place in the eighteenth century, resulting in an economic take-off. 5. take off informal to leave somewhere suddenly, especially without telling anyone: ▪ What's wrong with Ian? He just took off without saying goodbye. ▪ She was such a wild young girl - I was afraid that one day she might just take off and disappear. 6. take sb off to move someone away to a place, or make them go there with you + to ▪ Two people had been dug out of the snow by rescuers, and taken off to hospital. ▪ Myong-Hwan had been home less than ten days when the police came to the house and took him off to jail. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑cart off informal 7. take sb off BrE informal to copy the way that someone speaks or behaves in order to make people laugh: ▪ Peter's really good at taking people off. He does Tony Blair brilliantly - it's so funny. ■ SIMILAR TO: mimic, impersonate take-off n C when someone copies the way that someone else speaks or behaves in order to make people laugh: ▪ Donna did a brilliant take-off of the principal. 8. take yourself off informal, especially BrE to go somewhere: ▪ I took myself off for a walk, hoping to forget about my problems. +to ▪ Please, Norman, take yourself off to a tailor and get yourself a decent suit. ▪ His wife had complained of a headache and had taken herself off to bed. 9. take sb off sth to stop someone from doing a particular type of work, usually because they are doing it badly: ▪ Detective Bachinski was taken off the case, and is suspected of taking bribes. ▪ The psychiatrist thinks I'm insane, and they're going to take me off combat duty and send me home. 10. take off sth • take sth off • take sth off sth to take a particular amount or number from a total: ▪ When I complained, they agreed to take $10 off the price. ▪ Will the examiner take points off for spelling mistakes? ■ SIMILAR TO: deduct ■ OPPOSITE: add on 11. take sb off sth to stop giving someone a particular type of medicine: ▪ Dr Brown's taken me off Prozac - it wasn't doing me any good. ▪ "You act like my mom before the doctor took her off those pills," said Stu. "They made her like a robot." ■ OPPOSITE: put on 12. take sth off BrE if a bus, train, or plane service is taken off, it is stopped: ▪ The 6.15 train to London has been taken off. ▪ People who live in rural areas are complaining that many of their bus services have been taken off. ■ SIMILAR TO: axe 13. take sth off if a play or a television or radio show is taken off, it is no longer performed or broadcast: ▪ The play failed to attract a big enough audience, and was taken off after only a few nights. take sth off the air (=stop broadcasting a television or radio show) ▪ TV comedy show "Nothing Sacred" was taken off the air, after thousands of people wrote in to complain that it was offensive to Christians. take on 1. take on sth/sb • take sth/sb on to agree to do some work or to accept a responsibility: ▪ Don't take on too much work - the extra cash isn't worth it. ▪ When Mr Clifford married a young widow with five children, he must have known what he was taking on. ▪ Madonna took on her biggest role ever in Alan Parker's movie "Evita". ▪ a school that takes on difficult pupils 2. take on sb • take sb on to start to employ someone: ▪ We're taking on 50 new staff this year. ▪ She had an interview with a law firm in Glasgow and they took her on. 3. take on sth not passive to begin to have a particular quality or appearance: ▪ Matt's face took on a worried look. ▪ Seemingly innocent words like "brown" and "hamburger" take on new meaning in drug users' slang. ▪ The role of hospital managers has taken on increased importance since the reorganization of the health service. ■ SIMILAR TO: assume formal 4. take on sb • take sb on not passive to compete against someone or start an argument or fight with someone, especially someone who is bigger or more powerful than you: ▪ Nigeria will take on Argentina in the first round of the World Cup on Saturday. ▪ Mason is ready to take on Mike Tyson for the championship title. ▪ Opposition groups were preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria’s first free elections. + at ▪ I don't want to fight, but I'll take you on at any game you like. 5. take on sth • take sth on to start having a debt by borrowing money: ▪ I feel sorry for young people now, being forced to take on huge mortgages. ▪ The banks are always looking for ways to encourage customers to take on more debt. 6. take on sth • take sth on if a ship, plane, train etc takes on passengers, goods, or fuel during a journey, passengers get on or goods or fuel are put into it when it stops somewhere: ▪ The ship stopped in the port of Mukalla, and took on a cargo of dates. ▪ The flight goes via Bahrain, where we stop for refuelling and take on more passengers. 7. take it on yourself to do sth ► see ↑take upon/on take out 1. take out sth • take sth out to remove something from a bag, box, your pocket etc: ▪ Scott felt in his pocket and took out a bunch of keys. ▪ With clammy fingers he took out a packet of cigarettes and tried to light one. 2. take sb out to go with someone to a place such as a restaurant, theatre, or club, when you are paying for everything, or when you are showing them a place that they have not been to before: ▪ These friends of my parents came over from Greece, and I had to take their son out and show him around. ▪ Charles felt terribly nervous. Would it be obvious that this was the first time he'd taken a girl out? +to ▪ It was Mother's Day, so we took Mom out to lunch. + for ▪ Tommy had taken Cilla out for dinner a few times, and they had got along really well. 3. take out a loan/mortgage/insurance policy etc to arrange to start using a financial service provided by a bank or insurance company: ▪ Wheatley took out an insurance policy that would have paid him more than $1 million in the event of a serious injury. ▪ I just took out a $100,000 loan to buy a new boat. 4. take out sth • take sth out to get money from a bank: ▪ I took out $300 to spend on holiday. ■ SIMILAR TO: withdraw 5. take out sth • take sth out to borrow a book from a library: ▪ You can't take more than six books out at once. ■ SIMILAR TO: borrow 6. take out sb/sth • take sb/sth out informal to kill someone or destroy something, especially with a gun or bomb etc: ▪ Cruise missiles took out enemy radar, and then air strikes on military targets began. ▪ Our order were to take out the sentries guarding the bridge. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑kill, destroy 7. take out sb • take sb out informal to hit someone and make them become unconscious: ▪ Lewis was a big guy, who looked as if he could take a man out with one punch. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑knock out 8. take sth out to spend some time not working or not doing what you usually do take time out ▪ Why don't you take some time out to be with the children? take a year out BrE (=spend a year travelling or doing jobs, between leaving school and starting a university course) ▪ Andy's thinking of taking a year out and travelling round Europe. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑take off 9. take out sth BrE to go to a court of law and make an official complaint about someone, or get an official order telling someone that they must or must not do something: ▪ His wife left him because of domestic violence, and took out a court order to keep him away from her. ▪ Local people took out a private lawsuit against the oil company over water contamination. take out a summons (=get an official order that says someone must appear in a court of law) ▪ The police advised her to take out a summons against her neighbours for noise nuisance. take out of 1. take it out of sb/take a lot out of sb informal to make you feel very tired: ▪ Starting a new job takes a lot out of you. ▪ Cilla flopped down on the couch. "Looking after children really takes it out of you - they've got so much energy." 2. take sb out of himself/herself BrE to stop someone from thinking about their problems and feeling unhappy: ▪ Reading interesting books is a great way of taking you out of yourself. ▪ It's not good for a young girl to be on her own so much - she needs someone to take her out of herself. 3. take sth out of sth to make an activity less difficult, less boring, less enjoyable etc take the worry/strain/boredom etc out of sth ▪ Comprehensive travel insurance takes the worry out of holidaying abroad. ▪ software that takes the boredom out of formatting disks take the fun/joy etc out of sth ▪ These new regulations take all the joy out of motoring. ■ SIMILAR TO: remove take out on take sth out on sb to treat someone badly because you are angry and upset, even though it is not their fault take it out on sb ▪ Don't take it out on me - it's not my fault you've had a bad day. ▪ My husband is very unhappy at the moment, and has been taking it out on me and the children. take your anger/frustration etc out on sb ▪ Well, whatever's happened, for God's sake stop taking your frustrations out on me. I'm absolutely sick of your moods. take over 1. take over • take over sth • take sth over to start being responsible for something or doing a job that someone else was responsible for before you: ▪ Bonnie Fuller is to take over the editor's job at Cosmopolitan magazine. ▪ We'll stop halfway, and I'll take over the driving. ▪ Legendary coach Shula announced his retirement after 26 years with the team. So who will take over? +as ▪ TOKYO, Jan 11 - Ryutaro Hashimoto took over as Japan's prime minister today. +from ▪ Edouard Michelin took over from Francois, his father, as head of the family firm. 2. take over sth • take sth over to get control of a company by buying it or by buying most of its shares (=the equal parts into which the ownership of a company is divided): ▪ Midland Bank was taken over by Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank last year. ▪ The engineering company T-I has taken over the Dowty Group, based in Cheltenham. City experts predict that hundreds of jobs may be lost. takeover n C when a company gets control of another company by buying most of its shares: ▪ Following its takeover of Coalite, Anglo United are selling eight businesses worth $300m. takeover bid (=an attempt to get control of a company) ▪ Kingfisher fought off a $1.8 billion takeover bid by Dixons. 3. take over • take over sth • take sth over to get control of a place or a political organization, especially by using force: ▪ In January 1976, Moroccan forces took over Western Sahara. ▪ The narcotics dealers have taken over the city. They control businesses, politics, everything. ▪ When the communists took over in 1945, they were determined to industrialize Yugoslavia. takeover n singular when someone gets control of a place, especially by using force: ▪ the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia 4. take over sth • take sth over if a particular kind of people or things take over a place, large numbers of them appear there, so that there are more of them than the people or things that were there before - use this when you wish the changes had not happened: ▪ Every summer the town is taken over by tourists. ▪ The garden had been seriously neglected, and had been completely taken over by weeds and brambles. 5. take over/take over sth if something takes over or if it takes over your life, it starts to have a very big effect on you and you do not think about anything else: ▪ When you run your own company, it's easy to let work take over completely. take over your life ▪ Once the baby is born, it will completely take over your life. 6. take over if a feeling takes over, you start to feel it strongly and it controls your behaviour: ▪ I saw the ball coming towards me, then my instincts took over. I leapt in to the air and caught it. ▪ She knew she had to stay calm - she mustn't allow panic to take over. 7. take over sth • take sth over to start living in or using a house or other building: ▪ I'm going to be working in Singapore for six months, so a friend is taking over my flat. ▪ Stacey's bookstore is expanding, and taking over a larger building on Market Street. 8. take over • take over sth to start to control what other people are doing, in an annoying way: ▪ This was a nice place to work until she came to work here and started trying to take over. ▪ It's always difficult discussing things when there's a man in the room. They always take over the conversation. take over from take over from sth/sb especially BrE to become more successful, popular, or important than something or someone else, and replace them as the most successful, popular, or important one: ▪ Digital cameras will eventually take over from conventional cameras. + as ▪ Mel Gibson has taken over from Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hollywood's most popular actor, according to a survey. ▪ London is taking over from Paris as Europe's fashion capital. ■ SIMILAR TO: supersede, replace take round BrE ► see ↑take around take through take sb through sth to show someone how something is done by explaining all the different parts or stages to them, or by doing it with them: ▪ The dance teacher took her class through a new routine. ▪ It was only a short scene, but the director took the actors through it twelve times before he was satisfied with it. ▪ I'm just going to take you through the business plan, and then I'll answer any questions. ► compare ↑go through take to 1. take to sb/sth not passive to start to like a person or place, especially when you first meet them or first go there: ▪ I took to Paul as soon as I met him. ▪ Ray's brother Billy came running in, and we took to each other right away. ▪ "How's your daughter getting on at university?" "Oh she loves it. She took to it straight away." ▪ Muriel never took to country life, and always longed to go back to the city. ■ OPPOSITE: take against 2. take to sth to start doing something regularly take to doing sth ▪ A group of us took to meeting in a bar called Harry's every day after work. ▪ She goes to concerts and buys trendy clothes, and has even taken to wearing black nail varnish. take to drink/drugs (=start drinking a lot of alcohol or using drugs) ▪ When Tom's wife left him, he fell apart, and took to drink, drugs, and gambling. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑start 3. take to sth not passive to enjoy and be good at doing something, especially the first time you try it: ▪ Yanto jumped onto the motorbike and started it. He took to it like a natural. take to sth like a duck to water (=learn how to do something very easily because you are naturally good at it) ▪ Lillie went to her first tap dancing lesson when she was four, and took to it like a duck to water. 4. take to sth to go into or on to something take to the hills/lifeboats etc (=in order to escape from danger) ▪ Villagers were fleeing their homes in terror and taking to the hills. ▪ The ship was now ablaze, and the only escape was to take to the lifeboats. take to the streets (=in order to protest) ▪ After a student was killed by the police, an estimated five hundred thousand protestors took to the streets. take to your bed (=because you are ill) ▪ My fever returned and I took to my bed. take to the road/air/skies/seas etc (=start a journey by road, air, or sea) ▪ Around 5 million Californians will take to the road over the long holiday weekend. ▪ There was a distant roar as a squadron of Mig 15s took to the skies. take up 1. take up sth • take sth up to start doing a particular activity or kind of work: ▪ When did Bryan take up golf? ▪ The government is trying to encourage more graduates to take up teaching. 2. take up sth • take sth up to start to have a new position of responsibility: ▪ Peter Stefanini is leaving the company to take up a directorship with Croda International. take up a post ▪ Professor Andrew Likierman is to take up his post as Chief Accountancy Adviser to the Treasury on December 1. 3. take up sth • take sth up to use a particular amount of time, space, or effort: ▪ A new baby will take up all your time and energy. ▪ I had an essay to write, which took up most of the weekend. ▪ My old clothes take up a lot of space, but I just can't throw any of them away. ▪ I don't want to take up too much of your valuable time, but I need to have your opinion on something. ■ SIMILAR TO: occupy formal 4. take up an offer/opportunity/challenge to accept an offer, opportunity, or challenge (=something difficult and exciting that you have not done before): ▪ So far a quarter of Britain's schools have taken up the offer of half-price computers. ▪ Each year more and more amateur runners take up the challenge of the New York Marathon. ▪ The long-term unemployed are being encouraged to take up training opportunities that will increase their chances of finding employment. ■ SIMILAR TO: accept ■ OPPOSITE: reject take-up n U BrE the rate at which people buy or accept something that is being offered: ▪ Despite all the advertisements, the take-up has been slow. 5. take up sth • take sth up to try to make people pay attention to a problem or an unfair situation, by complaining or protesting, or by arguing in support of someone's rights: ▪ Father Ramirez took up the issue of land reform on behalf of peasant farmers. + with ▪ I'm going to take the matter up with my lawyer. ▪ If you are not satisfied with out service, you'd better take it up with the manager. take up a cause (=support a principle or someone's rights) ▪ Protestors are demanding equal rights for gay men and women, and several newspaper have taken up their cause. take up sb's case (=argue in support of someone's legal rights) ▪ MP Stephen Collins has taken up the case of Bob Doyle, a British lorry driver, wrongly imprisoned in the Middle East. ■ SIMILAR TO: pursue 6. take up a suggestion/recommendation/proposal to do what someone suggests or advises that you should do: ▪ The government has asked a committee to write a report, and then failed to take up any of its recommendations. ▪ No one has taken up our suggestion that the working week should be cut to 30 hours. 7. take up sth • take sth up usually passive to start to use ideas, designs, or ways of doing things that someone else has developed: ▪ Keynes's economic theories were taken up by political parties throughout Europe and America. ▪ The styles that appear on the Paris catwalks are then taken up by high street stores. ▪ The technique was developed by researcher Stephen Smyth, and was later taken up by the communications industry, and used in their systems worldwide. ■ SIMILAR TO: adopt 8. take up a position to move to the exact place where you are supposed to be, so that you are ready to do something: ▪ US soldiers took up positions a few hundred yards away, to block a road leading to the canal. ▪ The flower sellers took up their positions in the market square. 9. take up sth • take sth up literary to pick something up and hold or carry it: ▪ Rouget took up his pen, and began to write. ▪ She flopped down on the bed, staring at me as she took up a cigarette and lit it. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pick up ■ OPPOSITE: put down 10. take up sth • take sth up to continue a story or activity that was started by someone else, or that you started before but had to stop: ▪ Last October pollution reached record levels. Our environment correspondent Peter Brown takes up the story.... take up where sb left off ▪ After the war I returned to college, hoping to take up where I'd left off. ▪ Marco's new wife turned all her attention to looking after him, taking up where his mother left off. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pick up, resume 11. take up sth • take sth up to remove something that is fixed to the floor or the ground: ▪ We're going to take up the carpet and put down a wood-block floor. 12. take up sth • take sth up to reduce the length of a skirt, dress, pair of trousers etc: ▪ This dress will be OK if I just take it up a few inches. ■ SIMILAR TO: shorten ■ OPPOSITE: let down ► compare ↑take in, ↑let out 13. take up sth • take sth up to start singing a song that someone else has started singing, or start shouting something that someone else has started shouting: ▪ A woman shouted "Hallelujah", and those around her took up the cry. ▪ She banged the piano keys and the crowd began to take up the refrain. 14. take up sth • take sth up if a plant or animal takes up a substance, that substance goes into it: ▪ The seeds of some aquatic plants take up water and swell quickly. ▪ As we get older our bodies become less efficient in taking up some nutrients. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑take in take up on 1. take sb up on sth to accept an offer that someone has made: ▪ I was surprised that she didn't take me up on my offer to drive her to Chimayo. ▪ "I'll cook you dinner if you like." "I might just take you up on that." ■ SIMILAR TO: accept 2. take sb up on sth to ask someone to explain what they have just said, because you disagree with them: ▪ Let me take you up on one or two of those points. ▪ He was quick, she noticed, to take her up on any casual remark. ■ SIMILAR TO: pick sb up on sth BrE take up with 1. be taken up with sth to be very busy doing something and give it all of your attention: ▪ She was so taken up with the children, that she had not noticed her husband was unhappy. ▪ Jo's completely taken up with work at the moment. 2. take up with sb not passive informal to become friendly with someone and spend a lot of time with them, especially someone who will be a bad influence on you: ▪ Now Janet has taken up with millionaire singer, Starbuck Williams. ▪ He's taken up with a group of lads from Rhyl. He came home blind drunk last night. ■ SIMILAR TO: get in with sb take upon/on take it upon/on yourself to do sth formal to decide to do something without asking anyone for permission or approval: ▪ A junior official had taken it upon himself to hand my report to the press. ▪ My ex-husband took it on himself to make these arrangements when he had no right to do so. |
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