Dixon’s Idioms – A Revised and Expanded Edition By Dr. Yau-shian Ho
1	take up 去唸，去攻讀，去學
***	a. Dean doesn’t want to follow in his dad’s footsteps to study engineering, but wants to take up medicine instead. 鼎不要追隨他父親的腳步學工程，而要去唸醫。
	b. Tiffany plans to take up film making at New York University and become one of Ang Lee’s alumni. 蒂凡妮計劃到紐約大學去攻讀電影製作而成為李安的校友之一。
	c. Mark took up dancing for the sake of courting Heidi. 馬克為了追求海蒂而去學跳舞。
	take up 去玩，去搞
	d. I started to take up skiing as a hobby while attending college. 我在唸大學時開始去玩滑雪當作嗜好。
	e. My mom felt fulfilled since taking up pottery-making after retirement. 我母親退休後去玩捏陶而感到充實了。
	f. Mike took up politics against his father’s advice. 麥可不顧父親的勸告去搞政治。
	take up 佔掉，佔據
	g. This sofa is way too big. It is going to take up too much of our living room space. 這沙發太大太大了，它會佔掉太多我們起居室的空間。
	h. Study takes up too much of Bill’s time. He rarely has time to play with other kids or relax a little. 唸書佔掉太多比爾的時間，他很少有時間去跟其他小孩玩或輕鬆一下。
	take up 扛下
	i. His retired parents do not mind taking up the chores of caring for his kids while he and his wife work during the day 他和他太太白天上班時，他已退休的父母親不介意扛下照顧他們孩子的差事。
	take up residence in 在…定居下來
	j. I took up residence in Washington D.C. suburb in 1972 after finishing my Ph.D. degree. 我唸完博士學位後一九七二年在華盛頓郊區定居了下來（住了下來）。
	註：follow in someone’s footsteps追隨…的腳步；alumnus(單數),alumni(複數)校友；for the sake of 為了…；court追求；feel fulfilled感到充實了；pottery-making捏陶，製陶；chores差事，雜事，瑣事；residence住所，住處；Ph.D. degree博士學位。