sop up

常見例句

Boats managed to sop up about 1 million barrels of the estimated 4 million barrels from the ruptured Macondo well, showing how widely the oil has spread.
從破裂的馬孔多油井漏出估計(jì)達(dá)四百萬桶，清汙船設(shè)法打撈出其中一百萬桶，可見原油擴(kuò)散的有多大。
Many of these buyers appear confident that foreign companies will continue to pour into China's big cities, and expatriates will sop up the many still-empty apartments.
很多人堅(jiān)信外資企業(yè)將繼續(xù)湧入中國，駐華的外國人會(huì)將大城市許多空置的公寓一搶而空。
After experiments to see how much oil he could sop up with hair clippings, he invented the hairmat to effectively clean up oil-spilled waters.
在多次試騐中他統(tǒng)計(jì)了用剪下來的頭發(fā)可以吸收多少油量，然後他就發(fā)明了用頭發(fā)織成的蓆子來淨(jìng)化油汙染的水源的方法。

The rail holding and utilities fulfilled his need to get invested in GDP properties and sop up cash.
FORBES: Buffett, The Reinvented Warrior, Soldiers On
Tellabs is clearly benefitting from the increased network demands on wireless carriers as smartphones continue to sop up bandwidth.
FORBES: Tellabs Feasts On Busy Bandwidth
Unless you have some capital losses to sop up your gains, you likely don't want to sell the lower-basis shares.
FORBES: Magazine Article