1、take up
开始从事;喜欢上
He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport.
他并不特别想从事竞技体育运动。
He left a job in the City to take up farming.
他辞去伦敦商业区的工作,开始务农。
开始处理;讨论如何处理
Mr de Garis's MP, Max Madden, took up the case.
德加里斯先生的下议员马克斯·马登开始着手处理这个问题。
Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.
能够提供环境威胁证据的大多数科学家都有理由认为,环保团体不会放过这个问题。
接受,答应(提议或挑战)
Increasingly, more wine-makers are taking up the challenge of growing Pinot Noir.
越来越多的酿酒商开始接受种植黑皮诺葡萄的挑战。
96 per cent of the eligible employees took up the offer.
符合条件的雇员有 96% 接受了这个条件。
2、infiltrate
渗透,潜入(地方、组织中等)
Activists had infiltrated the student movement.
激进分子已经渗入到了学生运动中。
The street protests had been infiltrated by people bent on violence.
街头抗议的人群中已经渗入了一些倾向于暴力的人。
使渗入;使渗透
Some countries have infiltrated their agents into the Republic.
一些国家已派间谍渗入了该共和国内部。