take up

基本解释

Leaves of many plants take up carbon dioxide and fix it in organic acids.
许多植物的叶子吸收二氧化碳，并使之化合成有机酸。
Then, we plot the different graphs so that they each take up one fourth of the screen.
然后，我们绘制不同的曲线图，从而它们可以每个图占据屏幕的四分之一。
We will take up these issues and offer some advice on how to structure your transactions in Part 3 of this series.
在此系列的第 3 部分中，我们将讨论这些问题并提供一些关于如何构造应用程序的建议。

"I am not the first president to take up this cause," he said "but I am determined to be the last."
So if you had a book as long as the Gospel of Matthew, it'd take up a pretty thick scroll.
如果你有一本像马太福音一样长的书，那么它就是很厚的一卷。
耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选
Iser We may or may not have the lecture on Iser, but on Tuesday we'll be getting into the varieties of formalism and first we'll take up the American New Criticism.
我们将来可能有一讲会详细介绍，但下周二我们讲各种形式主义,首先是美国新批评。
耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Gossip has it Hubner even threatened not to take up her job in the EP.
ECONOMIST: European politics

If you take up an activity or a subject, you become interested in it and spend time doing it, either as a hobby or as a career.
If you take up a question, problem, or cause, you act on it or discuss how you are going to act on it.
If you take up a job, you begin to work at it.
If you take up an offer or a challenge, you accept it.
If something takes up a particular amount of time, space, or effort, it uses that amount.