take up for

基本解释

But it is a bit likethose guys who wear their pants so low you can see ALL of theirunderwear or the people who take up smoking for the "trendy image".
但是这有点像那些将裤子穿的很低以至别人都可以看到他们的内衣的家伙或者那些为了“时髦形象”而吸烟的人们。
He doesn't take up, for example, the question of what it might be like to be sort of a representative of these minorities or colonized figures and to write about oneself.
比如说，他没有着手研究，能不能让这些,少数族裔或被殖民者的表现,来书写自己。
I have already realized my mistakes; what I can do now is to take up responsibility for what I had done.
我应经认识到了自己的错误，现在，我唯一能做的就是为自己所做的事情承担应有的责任。

The winnings go up from there. For example,the player who finishes in fourth place will still take home more than three million dollars.
I'll take about five more minutes to finish up and that'll give us some time for questions.
大概五分钟结束,留给你们一些时间提问。
耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选
And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.
我也觉得很好玩,因为我可能不知道你们最后选择的小说，所以对我来说,认真对待你们选的一本书很有挑战性,可能是一本我知道的书。
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