combinations of a verb and a preposition adverb
combinations of a verb and a preposition, adverb or both, operating as single units and giving a new meaning. • He put on his best suit for the wedding. • 他穿上他最好的衣服参加婚礼。 • Three planes were standing on the tarmac, waiting to take off. • 三架飞机停在跑道上,等候起飞。 • The machine must break down at this busy hour. • 正忙的时候机器偏偏出故障了。
1. take up (took, taken) • I still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won last year. • 我现在仍然不能相信我是在接受我去年获得的这 个奖励。
1. take up (took, taken) 你准备接受挑战了吗? (1) Are you going to take up the challenge? (2) She took up teaching as her career when she was 20. 从事,开始…… (3) Doing homework took up most of the 占用(时间或空间) weekend. (4) Take up your arms. 拿起武器。 (5) I’ll take up the story where I left off yesterday. 接着,继续. . .
2. sweep up (swept, swept) • He was swept up into the center of them. • 他被卷入到这群车队中去了。
2. sweep up打扫 (swept, swept) 打扫垃圾/落叶/碎玻璃 sweep up the rubbish/ fallen leaves/ broken glass 晚会结束后,她被留下来打扫了。 She was left to sweep up after the party.
3. speed up加速;加快 • When we wanted the hovering carriage to speed up, we pressed down hard on the driving pedal and… e. g. You notice that your breathing has speeded up a bit. He pushed a lever that speeded up the car. 我已采取措施加快解决这一问题的办法。 I had already taken steps to speed up a solution to the problem.
Phrasal verbs in Unit 3 • I still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won last year. • She was left to sweep up after the party. • When we wanted the hovering carriage to speed up, we pressed down hard on the driving pedal and…
Some other phrasal verbs with up : speed up 加速 sweep up 清扫 look up 查阅 pick up 捡起; 接载; make up 组成; 编造 break up 破碎; 破裂; 解散 put up 张贴; 搭建 cut up 切碎 bring up 养育; 呕吐 show up 出现; 露面 give up 放弃; 戒除; 投降 set up take up 接受; 从事; 占用; 拿起; 继续 建立
Practice One: look up make up put up bring up give up pick up break up cut up show up set up take up speed up sweep up 1) The two sides agreed to _______ set up a commission to investigate claims. sweep up that glass will you? 2)Get a broom and _____ putting up barricades across a number of major 3) Protesters have been _____ intersections. Cut up the carrots before you put them into the pot. 4)_______ 5) I think it's very unkind of you to make ____ up stories about him. speed up chemical reactions. 6) Catalysts are materials which greatly _____
Practice One: look up make up put up bring up give up pick up break up cut up show up set up take up speed up sweep up 7) Please look _______ up the trains to Beijing in the timetable. bring up children. 8) Many women still take career breaks to _____ show up for many years. 9) Scientists know that cancer may not _____ break up a demonstration. 10) Police used tear gas to _____ give up smoking. 11) Hypnotherapy can be useful in helping you ____ 12) These files have been zipped up to ____ take up less disk space. pick up Susan. 13) We drove to the airport the next morning to ____
break up show up cut up up put up take up pick up … up set up
break up show up cut up take off up put up 以介词或副词为中心词 take up take over take on pick up take down set up … take up in 以动词为中心词 take …
Some other phrasal verbs with take : take off 脱下; 起飞 take on a new look 呈现新面貌 take over the business 接管生意 take down some words 记下 take in 吸收,领会; 欺骗 take after 长得像;性格类似
Practice: take up take over take down take after take off take in take on taken over the running of his empire, including 1) His widow has ______ six London theatres. take up a competitive sport. 2) He did not particularly want to ____ take after you at all. 3) Your daughter doesn't ______ 4) The salesman finds it easy to ____ take in old ladies. 5) Let me get a pencil and ______the information. take down 6) People are not required to _____ take off their coats, belts or shoes as part of the security process. 7) Believing he had only a year to live, his writing took _______ on a feverish intensity.
Other useful expressions and phrases in this unit: a lack of make adjustment to for lack of be lacking in adjust to be back on one’s feet get to one’s feet clear your mind clear one’s throat clear one’s head lose sight of catch sight of lose one’s sight at the sight of
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