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

• He sweep up the dead leaves.
  他清扫落下的树叶。
• I will sweep up from africa.
  我会从非洲前来消灭他们。
• 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。
• 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 want you to sweep up the garage.
  我想让你去打扫一下车库。
• 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。
• Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
  把海水抽乾，把林木扫掉。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。