| 单词 | to take up with |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take up with 18. intransitive. to take up with. extracted from takev. a. To begin to associate or keep company with, esp. with a view to a romantic or sexual relationship; to become friendly with; to form a relationship with. Cf. to take with —— 2 at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > make friends with [verb (transitive)] workOE friend1483 to make friends (with, of, to)1561 to take up with1570 to pal up (also around, out, etc.)1889 to get next to1896 society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225 mella1300 fellowshipa1382 companya1400 accompany1461 to keep company (with)1502 encompanya1513 to keep (a person) company1517 to take repast1517 assist1553 to take up with1570 rempare1581 to go along with1588 amate1590 bear1590 to fall in1593 consort1598 second1600 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 comitate1632 associate1644 enhaunt1658 join1713 assort1823 sit1828 companionize1870 to take tea with1888 to knock about with1915 tote1977 fere- 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1392/2 The Maior aunswered, what come ye to me? You are taken vp with the kynges counsaile. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B4v Are you therefore my superiour because you are taken vp with Gentlemen, and I with the yeomanrie? a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) i. sig. B1 He's taken up with those that wooe the Widdow. 1690 T. Brown Reasons Mr. J. Hains Conversion 25 Having got drunk, I took up with a common Wench in the streets, and have met with a Clap. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 28 The man of Mode takes up with a damn'd Jilt. 1709 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 12 Nov. (1965) I. 19 These wars make men so violent scarce, that these good ladies take up with the shadows of them. a1777 S. Foote Maid of Bath (1778) 55 A garson of your antient famille to take up with a pauvre petite bourgoise? 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xi. 173 To see his daughter taking up with their son. 1887 E. E. Money Little Dutch Maiden (1888) 329 If you cannot marry her, you won't care to take up with another. a1914 H. Miles Brief Sketch of Life (1924) 58 He has taken up with that lot, and been to their chapel, and become a Methodist, and joined that narrow-minded people. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy iii. 76 The woman he ‘took up with’ was likely enough to be married herself and of roughly the same age as his own wife. 1963 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 14 Mar. 44/1 Miss Dolly has ‘taken up’ with a poor but respectable cabinet-maker and his wife... She sells her stolen nag to help them out. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xvii. 437 I wondered how desperate she was that she had taken up with this bloke. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > be content or satisfied with [verb (transitive)] restc1300 to take in (good) wortha1382 sufficec1390 to have (also accept, bear, etc.) in wortha1456 stay1549 to take up with1609 to settle for1959 the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > endure patiently [verb (transitive)] > bear with or tolerate forbearc897 tholec950 bearOE abidec1300 bidea1325 takec1330 suffer1340 wielda1375 to have patience with (also in, toward)c1384 supportc1384 to sit with ——c1400 sustainc1400 thulgec1400 acceptc1405 to away with1528 brook1530 well away1533 to bear with —1538 digest1553 to comport with1565 stand1567 purse?1571 to put up1573 well away1579 comport1588 fadge1592 abrook1594 to come away1594 to take up with1609 swallow1611 embracea1616 to pack up1624 concocta1627 to set down bya1630 to take with ——1632 tolerate1646 brook1658 stomach1677 pouch1819 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > accept without resistance [verb (transitive)] > put up with or become reconciled to bear1540 reconcile1543 to take up with1609 to come to terms1860 to live with ——1937 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 394 Never doe wee find that he tooke up with any mild correction and punishment. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 395 I will not take up with the old and meane buildings of my Ancestors. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. xiv. 276 Nature teaches and inclines us to take up with our Lot. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. viii. 282 The unsatisfactory Nature of the Evidence, with which we are obliged to take up. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 588 The book-sellers..buy all the good books, and the joint stock company must take up with the refuse of the market. 1839 London & Paris Observer 24 Mar. 185/3 Our jeweller persisted..in affirming his first valuation; and I rather think Sir Thomas was obliged, after all, to take up with his lot. 1875 J. G. Holland Sevenoaks iv. 43 ‘If you can take up with what we've got,’ said Mrs. Buffum suggestively. ‘In course,’ responded Jim, ‘an' I can take up with what ye haven't got.’ c. To adopt, espouse, agree with (an idea, belief, etc.); to become interested or engaged in (a profession or pastime). Cf. sense 8a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (transitive)] cordc1380 to give handsa1425 to fall to ——a1450 agree1472 to go into ——1540 astipulate1548 subscribe1560 seal1579 suffragate1606 give1621 assent1637 homologate1644 to take up with1673 affirmative1775 chorus1836 yea-say1887 yes1915 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master v. i. 94 You must have your great, gilt, fine, painted Coaches, I'm sure they are grown so common already amongst you, that Ladies of Quality begin to take up with Hackneys agen. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 27 I could as easily take up with that senseless assertion of the Stoics. 1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 275 Taking up with all manner of false proofs in behalf of Christianity. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xvi. 76 As he could not have the honour of it, in the literal sense of the doctrine—he took up with the allegory of it. 1825 R. H. Froude in Remains (1838) I. 178 My lately having taken up with reading sermons. 1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory I. 127 We take up at once with the belief that the space around us is empty. 1905 Secret Service 19 May 18/1 He felt that he had made as bad a break as ever before since he took up with the detective business. a1941 V. Woolf Haunted House (1967) 79 A readiness to take up with something new—whatever it may be that comes next to hand. 1998 J. Skinner in Bk. of Margery Kempe 5 It is easy to imagine that once Margery took up with the idea of becoming a pilgrim, her lifestyle changed into a continual traipse from one holy site to the next. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > esp. a place of refuge or safety to take to ——c1300 take?a1400 to take up with1748 oasis1814 1748 L. Pilkington Mem. II. 128 As I could not take up with her Bed, I was obliged to sit up all Night. 1760 S. Fielding Ophelia I. iv. 24 At night he again took up with his Couch. < as lemmas |
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