taken up

Will you give us some idea of what will be taken up at the next meeting?

下次会议要讨论什么,你给我们吹吹风 吧 .

(figurative)A number of smaller companies were mopped up (= taken over) by the American multinational.

有若干较小的公司都被美国跨国集团吞掉了。

His time was entirely taken up with his office work.

他的时间完全给办公室工作占掉了。

My son has taken up with the Jones boys who live down the road.

我儿子与住在路那一头的琼斯家的男孩子们很要好.

A good deal of my time is taken up with reading critical essays and reviews

我的大部分时间都用在阅读评论文章上了。

The melody is then taken up by the flutes.

接着由长笛奏主旋律。

Spring and summer are taken up by the reaping of hay and the threshing of corn.

春天和夏天的时间全都在收割干草和给谷物脱粒。

I'm sorry to have taken up so much of your time.

费了你这么多时间，我心里真过不去。

Things should be taken up in order of priority.

办事应有个先后次序。

He had taken up a position in the centre of the room...

他占据了房间中心的位置。

He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.

他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作.

Sorry we've taken up so much of your time.

对不起，占了你这么多时间。

I've taken up dancing lessons – they're great fun!

我开始上舞蹈课了，特别有意思！

I've just taken up swimming.

例句我最近刚开始学游泳。

I had already taken steps to speed up a solution to the problem

我已经采取措施加快解决该问题。

He had taken up a position in the centre of the room

他占据了房间中心的位置。

He has taken up his former post again.

他重新担任原职。

If she had had to give up riding she might have taken up sailing competitively.

如果她当时不得不放弃骑自行车的话，她或许就从事她很有优势的帆船运动了。

My time was fully taken up with reading those papers.

我的时间全用在阅读那批文件上了。

His mind was wholly taken up with the question.

他满脑子都在想这个问题。

The discussion was taken up when enough data had been collected.

当收集到足够资料后，讨论重新开始了。

I had already taken steps to speed up a solution to the problem...

我已经采取措施加快解决该问题。

As for economic accounting, it is to be taken up gradually.

至于经济核算，那就要逐步来。

I have taken up gardening again.

我又开始干起了园艺活。

If she had had to give up riding she might have taken up sailing competitively

如果她当时不得不放弃骑自行车的话，她或许就从事她很有优势的帆船运动了。

He had taken up a position in the centre of the room.

他占据了房间中心的位置。

Another encouraging sign, I think, is that it's not just in the developed world that this idea's been taken up.

我觉得另一个令人鼓舞的现象是不止在发达国家人们开始接纳这种思想。

He has come back and taken up the post of Company's manager.

他再度出山,任该公司经理.

I've taken up that challenge many times over.

我已经爬上过长城好多次了。

The rest of the space was taken up by cardboard boxes piled right to the ceiling, ten deep.

其余的空间都被纸板盒子占据了，一直摞到天花板，足有10层高。