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

• The Soviets had already mellowed and it was left to diplomacy only to sweep up the cobwebs left over from the cold war.
  苏联人现在已经成熟了，会完全通过外交来清理冷战时期遗留下来的陈年旧帐。
• He was left to sweep up after the party.
  宴会结束后，他被留下来做打扫工作。
• Starting from principle of conservation of energy, a proportional model of sweep speed and laser power is set up by combining with the specific demand of LOM prototype manufacturing technology.
  从能量守恒原理出发，结合LOM原型制造工艺的具体要求，建立扫描速度与激光功率之间的正比模型。
• Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you?
  拿扫帚把那些玻璃清扫干净好吗？
• Thus, the two brothers with a broom and dustpan to sweep up the sun terrace.
  于是他们拿着扫帚和簸箕去清扫阳光。
• We'd better sweep up all the bits of broken glass quickly.
  我们最好快点把玻璃碴子扫干净。
• The US eavesdropping agency is able to seek approval from a secret court to collect bulk phone records at home and abroad and to sweep up internet browsing histories, searches and online chats.
  这个美国监听机构能够从一个秘密法院获取授权，以收集美国国内外的海量电话记录、互联网浏览历史记录、互联网搜索记录以及在线聊天内容。
• 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。
• Studies of the Regional national autonomy almost sweep up every theoretical and practical aspects of the policy.
  纵观已有关于民族区域自治的研究，囊括了从理论到实践的各个方面。
• 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。