sweep up

英 [swiːp ʌp]

美 [swiːp ʌp]

扫除; 清扫

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 扫除;清扫
  If yousweep uprubbish or dirt, you push it together with a brush and then remove it.
  1. Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you?...
     拿扫帚把那些玻璃清扫干净好吗？
  2. He started working for a gallery sweeping up and making the tea.
     他开始在画廊做扫地沏茶的工作。

英英释义

verb

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
  1. She embraced Catholicism
  2. They adopted the Jewish faith
  Synonym:espouseembraceadopt
• force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
  1. They were swept up by the events
  2. don't drag me into this business
  Synonym:embroiltanglesweepdragdrag in

双语例句

• I was definitely waiting for something, especially when I felt a chill breeze sweep up from the water.
  我绝对是在等待着什么，尤其是当我感到一阵寒冷的微风从水面上吹来时。
• His is a Book of epic sweep, like a novel made up of multiple strands.
  他的书简直就是一本史诗全集，就像一本有着多条主线的小说。
• Application of Sounding and Sweep Survey to Dredging up and Clearing High Points of Seaport and Seaway
  水深、扫海测量应用于港池、航道疏浚清浅
• The boys said they would sweep up the leaves.
  男孩们说他们会把落叶扫掉的。
• He sweep up the dead leaves.
  他清扫落下的树叶。
• I sweep up the broken dishes and go outside.
  我把打碎的盘子扫起来，走出屋去。
• One has to wonder how many such scandals have to occur before the regulator acts to prevent them happening in the first place rather than trying to sweep up the after-effects, she said.
  她表示：人们不禁要想，还要爆发多少类似的丑闻，才能迫使监管机构采取行动从源头杜绝此类丑闻发生，而不是在事后去清理它们的影响。
• Sweep up the crumbs from under the table.
  把桌下的碎屑扫起来。
• Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
  把海水抽乾，把林木扫掉。
• Storms sweep across it and pile up great waves.
  暴风雨会横扫过大西洋向上掀起层层巨浪。