sweep up

英 [swiːp ʌp] 美 [swiːp ʌp]

• 打扫； 横扫

英英释义

Verb:

1. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;

   "They were swept up by the events"
   "don't drag me into this business"
   

2. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;

   "She embraced Catholicism"
   "They adopted the Jewish faith"
   

近反义词

【近义词】

• sweep 打扫
• adopt 采用
• drag in 拉进
• embroil 使卷入
• drag 拖
• tangle 缠结
• espouse 支持
• embrace 拥抱