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take up

/teyk-uhp/US // ˈteɪkˌʌp //

接受,占据,占用,承担

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of taking up.
    • : Machinery. uptake. any of various devices for taking up slack, winding in, or compensating for the looseness of parts due to wear.
    • : the contraction of fabric resulting from the wet operations in the finishing process, especially fulling.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbegin or start again

Examples

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

  • In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.

  • And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"

  • We won't find out this season, though it comes up occasionally.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.

  • Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.

  • In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.

  • The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.