英 [ˈteɪk ʌp] 美 [ˈteɪk ʌp]
开始从事（某项活动）：开始学习、练习或参与某项活动；
占用（时间、空间等）：使用或占据（时间、空间等）；
接受（挑战、任务等）：同意或接受（挑战、任务等）；
收起（衣物）：折叠或卷起（衣物）。
take up // [ taking took taken takes ]
动词词组 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. 开始从事
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。
动词词组 If you take up a question, problem, or cause, you act on it or discuss how you are going to act on it. 着手处理; 讨论如何处理
If you have a problem with the law, take it up with your legislators.
如果你有法律问题，去找你们的立法员讨论如何处理。
She had taken up the cause of a generation of American youth.
她已经开始着手一代美国年轻人的事业。
动词词组 If you take up a job, you begin to work at it. 开始工作
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。
动词词组 If you take up an offer or a challenge, you accept it. 接受 (建议或挑战)
Increasingly, more winemakers are taking up the challenge of growing Pinot Noir.
越来越多的葡萄酒商开始接受种植“黑比诺”葡萄的挑战。
动词词组 If something takes up a particular amount of time, space, or effort, it uses that amount. 占用 (时间、空间或精力)
I know how busy you must be and naturally I wouldn't want to take up too much of your time.
我知道你一定很忙，当然我不想占用你太多的时间。
A good deal of my time is taken up with driving the children to soccer games.
我的许多时间都用在开车送孩子们去参加足球比赛。
pursue or resume
turn one's interest to
take up time or space
begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
同义词： start
take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
同义词： sorb
accept
同义词： take in
return to a previous location or condition
同义词： resume
拿起；开始从事
... be hard up for money 缺钱,手边紧 take up 拿起;入手措置惩罚;占去 best of all 最(好),起首 ...
放弃（give up，挑选、偶尔获得（pick up）， 开始从事 （ take up ），举起，建立起 put up。 ，答应别人去23.D【解析】考查短语辨析。
【答案与解析】A 每过一个十字路口,我们就会看见有一个乞丐占据(take up)在那里。
... take up拿起；开始从事 hold up举起；阻挡；拦截 carry up建高（房屋），追溯 ...
拿起；开始从事
I won't take up any more of your time.
我不再占用你的时间了。
We will take up references after the interview.
我们在面试之后收推荐信。
I'd like to take up the point you raised earlier.
我想继续谈一谈你早些时候提出的问题。
"I am not the first president to take up this cause," he said "but I am determined to be the last."
VOA : special.2009.09.12
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.
我们将来可能有一讲会详细介绍，但下周二我们讲各种形式主义,首先是美国新批评。
文学理论导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
I mean they take up a teeny bit but essentially when we're thinking about the set up of the atom, we don't have to account for them as using up a lot of the mass we're discussing.
所以我们可以假设电子没有质量,它们占据了，非常小的一部分,所以当我们考虑,原子的构造的时候,不用考虑它们的质量。
化学原理课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
"Military experts tell us that it could take up to ten more years to achieve any acceptable outcome in Afghanistan.
VOA : special.2010.07.31
Experts say the ability to take up lead is reduced when the pH level is above six and a half.
VOA : special.2009.06.09
Eventually Baron Cohen emerges and we take up position on a hotel balcony one sunny afternoon in Cannes.
Gossip has it Hubner even threatened not to take up her job in the EP.
"Lagers can take up to six to eight weeks, or longer, " says Moonlight's Hunt.