| 词组 | take up |
| 释义 | 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 |
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