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

• 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。
• I sweep up the broken dishes and go outside.
  我把打碎的盘子扫起来，走出屋去。
• I will sweep up from africa.
  我会从非洲前来消灭他们。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。