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

• 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 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。
• Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you?
  拿扫帚把那些玻璃清扫干净好吗？
• I want you to sweep up the garage.
  我想让你去打扫一下车库。
• By using reflection factor and the precipitation of the auto weather stations, the radar mixed sweep surface is adjusted to make up the defect which occurred because the great angle exists and the surface exits a big flaw lack places;
  利用反射率因子及自动站雨量资料，通过调整雷达混合扫描面弥补了降水产品因山脉等地物挡角大而缺测面大的缺陷；
• The boys said they would sweep up the leaves.
  男孩们说他们会把落叶扫掉的。
• 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。
• He was left to sweep up after the party.
  宴会结束后，他被留下来做打扫工作。
• I will sweep up from africa.
  我会从非洲前来消灭他们。
• 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。