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 sweep up the broken dishes and go outside.
  我把打碎的盘子扫起来，走出屋去。
• Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you?
  拿扫帚把那些玻璃清扫干净好吗？
• 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。
• He sweep up the dead leaves.
  他清扫落下的树叶。
• He was left to sweep up after the party.
  宴会结束后，他被留下来做打扫工作。
• It may take months or even years to see the full sweep of what you achieved during this period, so keep your chin up and keep marching forward with determination.
  你需要数月甚至数年的时间才能察觉到你在此期间的收获，所以保持干劲，坚定决心向前迈进吧。
• I will sweep up from africa.
  我会从非洲前来消灭他们。
• In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles.
  在这段时间里，卡车司机不得不清扫那几百只破瓶子。
• I want you to sweep up the garage.
  我想让你去打扫一下车库。
• 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。