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如: A few years later I dropped medicine and took up physics. 幾年以后我放棄了醫(yī)學(xué), 開始學(xué)習(xí)物理。 He said he would take up my difficulties with the headmaster. 他說他要向校長提出我的困 難。 take up 還可以表示: 開始學(xué)習(xí)某項(xiàng)課程;向 … 提出; 開始做某項(xiàng)工作; 拿起武器;打斷某人等 。 When can you take up your duties, Doctor White? 懷特醫(yī)生, 您什么時(shí)候可以開始工作? She took me up suddenly when I suggested that the job was only suitable for a man. 我提出那工作只適合男人做, 她突然不容分說地把我打斷了。 Her time is fully taken up with writing. 她 的時(shí)間都用來寫作了。 He called on the people to take up arms to defend their freedom. 他號召人民拿起武器保衛(wèi)自由。 2. take up 占據(jù)(時(shí)間、空間) This table takes up too much room. 這個(gè)桌子太占地方。 3. fill vt./vi 使充滿;注入 Flowers filled the garden. 花園里開滿鮮花。 switch over 交換位置, 轉(zhuǎn)換 You drive first and then we can switch over. 你先開車, 然后我們換著開。 The doctor filled the bottle with some medicine. 醫(yī)生往瓶里裝入一些藥物。 T: What is workaholic? S: T: A person who works very hard and finds it difficult t