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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Application of Sounding and Sweep Survey to Dredging up and Clearing High Points of Seaport and Seaway
  水深、扫海测量应用于港池、航道疏浚清浅
• 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。