| 1. | He had something to take up with the president .
他有事要同总统商量。 |
| 2. | Her time is fully taken up with writing .
她的时间都用于写作了。 |
| 3. | She has taken up with an unemployed actor .
她跟一个失业的男演员混得很熟了。 |
| 4. | She is very taken up with voluntary work at the moment .
她目前大部分时间和精力都用在志愿工作上了。 |
| 5. | Our son has taken up with the boys round the corner .
我们的儿子已经跟拐角那儿的男孩子们交上朋友了。 |
| 6. | You keep taking up with one impossible fellow one after another .
你总一个接一个地跟一些莫名其妙的男人往来。 |
| 7. | Whenever she asked after him, the answer was, he was away from home, or he was quite taken up with business .
每次问起他的时候，听到的回答总是，他不在家，或者他事情很忙。 |
| 8. | Her time was always taken up with homework, work in the warehouse at the back of the shop, or church in one form or another .
她把大部分时间都用来做作业，到商店后面的仓库帮助干活，或到教堂参加各种活动。 |
| 9. | Our minds are taken up with far more mundane things
我们的头脑充满了现实的问题。 |
| 10. | My time was fully taken up with reading those papers
我的时间全用在阅读那批文件上了。 |
