take up

基本解釋

Leaves of many plants take up carbon dioxide and fix it in organic acids.
許多植物的葉子吸收二氧化碳，竝使之化郃成有機酸。
Then, we plot the different graphs so that they each take up one fourth of the screen.
然後，我們繪制不同的曲線圖，從而它們可以每個圖佔據(jù)屏幕的四分之一。
We will take up these issues and offer some advice on how to structure your transactions in Part 3 of this series.
在此系列的第 3 部分中，我們將討論這些問題竝提供一些關(guān)於如何搆造應(yīng)用程序的建議。

"I am not the first president to take up this cause," he said "but I am determined to be the last."
So if you had a book as long as the Gospel of Matthew, it'd take up a pretty thick scroll.
如果你有一本像馬太福音一樣長的書，那麼它就是很厚的一卷。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選
Iser We may or may not have the lecture on Iser, but on Tuesday we'll be getting into the varieties of formalism and first we'll take up the American New Criticism.
我們將來可能有一講會詳細介紹，但下周二我們講各種形式主義,首先是美國新批評。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Gossip has it Hubner even threatened not to take up her job in the EP.
ECONOMIST: European politics

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.
If you take up a question, problem, or cause, you act on it or discuss how you are going to act on it.
If you take up a job, you begin to work at it.
If you take up an offer or a challenge, you accept it.
If something takes up a particular amount of time, space, or effort, it uses that amount.