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 want you to sweep up the garage.
我想让你去打扫一下车库。
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。
Sweep up the crumbs, please.
请把面包屑擦掉。
The unsteady lift characteristics of a delta wing with leading edge sweep angle 60 ° are investigated, when the wing is rapidly pitching up at incidence from 0 ° until 90 °.
对前缘后掠60°的三角翼在迎角0°～90°范围内快速上仰时的升力进行了测量。
Sweep up the crumbs from under the table.
把桌下的碎屑扫起来。
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。
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
把海水抽乾，把林木扫掉。
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。
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。
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。