take up

拿起；开始；从事；吸收；接纳；占去；继续做；做某事消遣

Mr. Fay is to take up an appointment as a researcher.(费伊先生将担任研究员的职务。)

1 really want a seat that doesn't take up any floor space when I don't need it.(我真的想要一个在我不需要的时候不占地板空间的座椅。)

I won't take up any more of your time.(我不再占用你的时间了。)

I firmly believe that my experience is adequate to take up this job.(我坚信我的经验足够让我从事这份工作。)

We will take up references after the interview.(我们在面试之后收推荐信。)

As soon as the police disappear the violence will take up from where it left off.(只要警察不在，暴力就会死灰复燃。)

He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport.(他并没有特别想要开始从事竞技性运动项目。)

He will take up his post as the head of the civil courts at the end of next month.(他将于下个月底开始担任民事法庭的庭长。)

Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time.(做梦大约占我们睡眠时间的四分之一。)

The bin can also compress the waste so it will take up less space.(垃圾桶还可以压缩垃圾，这样就会占用更少的空间。)

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

Synonym: take insop upsuck in

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

Synonym: assumetakestrike

10. take up and practice as one's own

Synonym: adoptborrowtake over

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

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的解释

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