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

• 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。
• I will sweep up from africa.
  我会从非洲前来消灭他们。
• 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。
• I sweep up the broken dishes and go outside.
  我把打碎的盘子扫起来，走出屋去。
• Extremists on the left and the right exaggerate that picture, but it rings true enough to provide the makings of a political swing against big business that could sweep up the two main parties.
  左翼和右翼的极端人士夸大了这一情形，但听起来确实是这么一回事，这可能导致美国两党政治立场的转向，调转矛头，指向大企业。
• 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。
• He sweep up the dead leaves.
  他清扫落下的树叶。
• 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。
• Let's pile up the fallen leaves in the corner and sweep up the floor.
  我们把落叶堆在角落里，然后把地打扫干净。
• 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。