mop up
英 [mɒp ʌp]
美 [mɑːp ʌp]
(用布)揩干,抹干; 除去,处理掉(不合意或危险的东西)
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 揩干;抹干
If youmop upa liquid, you clean it with a cloth so that the liquid is absorbed.- A waiter mopped up the mess as best he could...
一名侍者尽力抹掉溅出的食物。 - When the washing machine spurts out water at least we can mop it up...
洗衣机喷出水时,我们至少能把水抹干。 - Michael mopped up quickly with his napkin.
迈克尔迅速用餐巾将其揩干。
- A waiter mopped up the mess as best he could...
- PHRASAL VERB 完成;结束;肃清
If youmop upsomething that you think is undesirable or dangerous, you remove it or deal with it so that it is no longer a problem.- The infantry divisions mopped up remaining centres of resistance...
陆军各师肃清了残余的抵抗据点。 - These reactive molecules are mopped up and made harmless by Vitamin E.
这些活性分子已被维生素E灭活,没有害处了。
- The infantry divisions mopped up remaining centres of resistance...
英英释义
noun
- a concluding action
verb
- finish a task completely
- I finally got through this homework assignment
- defeat thoroughly
- He mopped up the floor with his opponents
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
- Mop the hallway now
- He mopped her forehead with a towel
双语例句
- Because inflation remained low, the central banks have been slow to mop up the excess liquidity.
由于通胀保持在较低的水平,中央银行慢慢的打击过量的流动资金。 - She mop up the pools of water on the bathroom floor
她擦去浴室地面上一滩滩的水 - Two companies were left behind to guard and mop up the recaptured territory.
留下两个连守卫收复的土地,并肃清这个地区的残敌。 - They have issued bills and bonds to mop up any rise in base money that would have occurred from the accumulation of foreign reserves.
外汇储备积累导致的基础货币上升,都被它们通过发放钞票和债券抹煞了。 - Excuse me! I need to mop up some puke.
抱歉,我要去清扫呕吐物。 - But the interest payments on domestic bonds issued to mop up capital inflows can have a heavy fiscal cost.
但为了冲销资本流入而发行国内债券,为此支付的利息会成为一笔巨额财政成本。 - We now have the ECB preparing to mop up most net bond issuance of eurozone governments through quantitative easing.
现在,我们看到欧洲央行准备通过量化宽松,把欧元区各国政府的净债券发行悉数吸收。 - The existence of all this excess capacity keeps interest rates and inflation low, so monetary policy is not compelled to mop up any overflow.
严重的产能过剩让利率和通胀保持在较低水平,因此,我们不必动用货币政策来吸收任何溢出。 - According to the so-called "Greenspan doctrine", named after Alan Greenspan, former Fed chairman, asset bubbles are hard to spot and even if they are it is easier to mop up after the bubble has burst than to try to prevent it.
以美联储前任主席艾伦格林斯潘(alangreenspan)命名的所谓“格林斯潘教义”认为,资产泡沫很难发现,而且即便能够发现,在泡沫破灭后做扫尾工作也比试图阻止泡沫破灭更加容易。 - Can someone mop up the ketchup and take the dummy? We'll do one more.
谁来把番茄酱擦掉?抬走假人,我们再来一次。