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 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。
• 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。
• Sweep flame around tube in short strokes up and down at right angles to run of tube.
  垂直环绕着管道上下来回短促扫着火焰。
• 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。
• Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you?
  拿扫帚把那些玻璃清扫干净好吗？
• 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。
• He was left to sweep up after the party.
  宴会结束后，他被留下来做打扫工作。
• 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。
• Bet on the Mets to sweep a doubleheader against the Phillies with two kids brought up from AA pitching against Halliday and Lee?
  大都会里俩孩子是青少年棒球赛出来的，可以挡挡哈勒戴和李，横扫费城人两场应该没问题。
• 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。