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

• 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。
• 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。
• He sweep up the dead leaves.
  他清扫落下的树叶。
• 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。
• Sweep up the crumbs, please.
  请把面包屑擦掉。
• Sweep up the crumbs from under the table.
  把桌下的碎屑扫起来。
• His is a Book of epic sweep, like a novel made up of multiple strands.
  他的书简直就是一本史诗全集，就像一本有着多条主线的小说。
• 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。