take up for

基本解釋

But it is a bit likethose guys who wear their pants so low you can see ALL of theirunderwear or the people who take up smoking for the "trendy image".
但是這有點像那些將褲子穿的很低以至別人都可以看到他們的內(nèi)衣的家伙或者那些為了“時髦形象”而吸煙的人們。
He doesn't take up, for example, the question of what it might be like to be sort of a representative of these minorities or colonized figures and to write about oneself.
比如說，他沒有著手研究，能不能讓這些,少數(shù)族裔或被殖民者的表現(xiàn),來書寫自己。
I have already realized my mistakes; what I can do now is to take up responsibility for what I had done.
我應(yīng)經(jīng)認(rèn)識到了自己的錯誤，現(xiàn)在，我唯一能做的就是為自己所做的事情承擔(dān)應(yīng)有的責(zé)任。

The winnings go up from there. For example,the player who finishes in fourth place will still take home more than three million dollars.
I'll take about five more minutes to finish up and that'll give us some time for questions.
大概五分鐘結(jié)束,留給你們一些時間提問。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.
我也覺得很好玩,因為我可能不知道你們最后選擇的小說，所以對我來說,認(rèn)真對待你們選的一本書很有挑戰(zhàn)性,可能是一本我知道的書。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選

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