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take up sth (an activity/hobby)
表示开始学习或从事某项活动或爱好。
She decided to take up painting.
她决定开始从事绘画。
占用；耗费
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占用；耗费
To occupy or consume (space or time).
She decided to take up painting.
她决定开始从事绘画。
举起；抬起。
To lift; to raise.
占用；消耗(空间或时间)。
To occupy; to consume (space or time).
就位；占据(指定或预期的位置)。
To take, to assume (one’s appointed or intended place).
着手做；处理(某事)。
To set about doing or dealing with (something).
take up
Base
原形
takes up
3rd person
第三人称单数
taking up
-ing
现在分词
took up
Past
过去式
taken up
Past participle
过去分词
He takes up a lot of space.
他占据了很多空间。
She took up painting last year.
她去年开始学画画。
I have taken up running.
我已经开始跑步了。
This huge sofa takes up almost half of the living room.
这张巨大的沙发占了客厅将近一半的地方。
The meeting took up three hours, so we missed lunch.
会议占用了三个小时，所以我们错过了午餐。
Could you move your bag? It's taking up too much room on the bench.
你能把包挪一下吗？它占掉了长椅上太多地方。
表示开始学习或从事某项活动或爱好。
She decided to take up painting.
她决定开始从事绘画。
表示占据时间或空间。
This sofa takes up too much space.
这张沙发占了太多空间。
表示用手拿起某物。
He took up the book and started reading.
他拿起书开始阅读。
Not this
I want to take a new hobby.
Use this
I want to take up a new hobby.
中文“开始从事”直译为“take”，但英语中必须使用短语动词“take up”才能表达“开始从事某活动”的含义。漏掉“up”会导致语义不完整。
Not this
She took up to learn French.
Use this
She took up learning French.
“take up”表示“开始从事”时，其后应接名词或动名词，而不是不定式。中文“开始学习”的直译容易导致错误使用不定式，正确形式是动名词或直接接名词（如“take up French”）。
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开始从事爱好
She decided to take up painting.
她决定开始学画画。
占据空间
The sofa takes up too much space.
沙发占据太多空间。
占用时间
This task will take up an hour.
这项任务将占用一小时。
接受挑战
He took up the challenge to run a marathon.
他接受了跑马拉松的挑战。
拿起武器
The rebels took up arms against the government.
叛乱者拿起武器反抗政府。
就职，担任职位
She will take up her new position next week.
她下周将上任新职位。
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联想'拿起'新爱好，如开始学吉他，占据时间与空间。
语域：neutral 常见场景：开始业余爱好、学习新技能 多用于日常生活或非正式语境，但在书面语中也可接受。
常用于 take up sth 或 take sth up 结构
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