take up什么意思
占用; 开始从事; 接受（提议）
建议
A：Do you think I should join the basketball team, Mary?
玛丽，你认为我应该参加篮球队吗？
B：Why not? If I were you, I certainly would.
为什么不呢？如果我是你，一定参加。
A：But I’m afraid it’ll take up too much of my time.
可是，这恐怕要占去我太多的时间。
B：As the saying goes:Work while you work, play while play. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, you know?
俗话说：工作时工作，娱乐时娱乐。只工作不娱乐，聪明的孩子也会变得笨拙，你知道吗？
A：Hmm, you’re right.
嗯，你说得对。
Getting pregnant-(怀孕)
B：I really think we should make sure we use a condom from now on.
我真的觉得从现在开始我们得用避孕套了。
A：Why?
为什么？
B：You don’t know how scared we were about getting pregnant last time.
你不知道上次怀孕我们是多么害怕。
A：I suppose that’s true.
那倒是。
B：We’re really stupid not to use one.
我们真是蠢，竟然没有用到。
take up
A：I got tested for AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD) two months before we started dating. You know that.
你知道，在我们开始约会以前两个月，我就做过AIDS和STD的检查。
B：I know, but it can take up to six months for some STDs to show up on the test. We shouldn’t take any more chances.
我知道。但是有些STD的病毒要六个月才知道。我们不可以再冒险了。
A：All right, you’re right.
好的，你是对的。
take up的近义词
B：O.K.
那就好。
1. 从事：第三,我们需要去探究主体是以什么方式从事(take up)这些特定的信仰并以何种方式去证明它们自身的. 工人们对社会学家提问的回应,并非铁板一块. 这些回应体现着他们对主题的不同认知、情感和社会功能.
2. 公共查询·英语单词
2. 爱好：我们将从事不同的职业(take up) 当他长大后,他开始从事写作,并以此作为自己的终身事业(take up) 这张台子占了房间三分之一的空间(take up) 他退休后从是园艺工作作为兴趣爱好(take up) 玩电子游戏占据了我许多时间(take up) 他大学毕业后,
3. 占据：finance n.财务 | take up占据 | primary adj.主要的
1. 开始从事;喜欢上
If you take up an activity or a subject, you become interested in it and spend time doing it, either as a hobby or as a career.
e.g. He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport...
他并不特别想从事竞技体育运动。
e.g. He left a job in the City to take up farming...
他辞去伦敦商业区的工作，开始务农。
2. 开始处理;讨论如何处理
If you take up a question, problem, or cause, you act on it or discuss how you are going to act on it.
e.g. Mr de Garis''s MP, Max Madden, took up the case...
德加里斯先生的下议员马克斯·马登开始着手处理这个问题。
e.g. Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue...
能够提供环境威胁证据的大多数科学家都有理由认为，环保团体不会放过这个问题。
3. 开始从事，开始干(工作)
If you take up a job, you begin to work at it.
e.g. He will take up his post as the head of the civil courts at the end of next month.
他将在下个月底就任民事法庭庭长一职。
4. 接受，答应(提议或挑战)
If you take up an offer or a challenge, you accept it.
e.g. Increasingly, more wine-makers are taking up the challenge of growing Pinot Noir...
越来越多的酿酒商开始接受种植黑皮诺葡萄的挑战。
e.g. 96 per cent of the eligible employees took up the offer.
符合条件的雇员有 96% 接受了这个条件。
5. 占用，花费(时间、空间或精力)
If something takes up a particular amount of time, space, or effort, it uses that amount.
take up在线翻译
e.g. I know how busy you must be and naturally I wouldn''t want to take up too much of your time...
我知道您肯定特别忙，我当然不想占用您太多的时间。
e.g. The entire memo took up all of two pages...
整个备忘录写了满满两页纸。
6. 占领，占据，占有(位置、阵地)
If you take up a particular position, you get into a particular place in relation to something else.
e.g. He had taken up a position in the centre of the room...
他占据了房间中心的位置。
e.g. UN peacekeeping forces are expected to take up positions along the border.
联合国维和部队估计会在边界线上就位。
7. 继续;把…接着进行下去
If you take up something such as a task or a story, you begin doing it after it has been interrupted or after someone else has begun it.
e.g. Gerry''s wife Jo takes up the story...
格里的妻子乔接着往下讲。
e.g. ''No, no, no,'' says Damon, taking up where Dave left off.
“不，不，不，”戴蒙说，然后从戴夫停下的地方接着说。
8. see also: take-up
verb
1. pursue or resume
e.g. take up a matter for consideration
2. return to a previous location or condition
e.g. The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it
Synonym: resume
3. adopt
e.g. take up new ideas
Synonym: latch onfasten onhook onseize on
4. take up as if with a sponge
5. take out or up with or as if with a scoop
e.g. scoop the sugar out of the container
Synonym: scoopscoop outlift outscoop up
6. take in, also metaphorically
e.g. The sponge absorbs water well
She drew strength from the minister''s words
Synonym: absorbsuckimbibesoak upsop upsuck updrawtake in
7. take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Synonym: sorb
8. accept
e.g. The cloth takes up the liquid
Synonym: take in
9. occupy or take on
e.g. He assumes the lotus position
She took her seat on the stage
We took our seats in the orchestra
She took up her position behind the tree
strike a pose
10. take up and practice as one''s own
11. begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
e.g. Take up a position
start a new job
Synonym: start
12. turn one''s interest to
e.g. He took up herpetology at the age of fifty
13. take up time or space
e.g. take up the slack