| 词组 | take up |
| 释义 | take up If you take up an activity, you become interested in it and start doing it. I thought I'd take up fishing. He took up gymnastics at the age of nine. Take up has another meaning. If an activity takes up a lot of your time, you spend a lot of time doing it. ...the cumbersome administrative work that took up staff time. At the moment 'Oliver' is taking a lot of my time up. Similarly, if something takes up an amount of space, it occupies all of it. Dresses don't take up much space. They don't take up any more room than a passport. ◊ 'take off' When a plane leaves the ground and starts flying, you do not say that it 'takes up'. You say that it takes off. ...small planes standing ready to take off. Journalists gathered at the airport to watch us take off. |
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