...部分。
以take up为例：
The manager took up the telephone
receiver and rang up the Ministry of Foreign Trade. (拿起，字面意义）
What is your brother taking up
in college?（学，成语意义）
这是否说明原来的定义不是很完善呢？
...e up one’s mind 后面可以接不定式。如：He made up his mind not to say a word. 他打定主意一句话也不说。In the end he made up his mind to go by train. 最后他决定坐火车去。Arriving there, he made up his mind to go in. 到达那里时他决定走进屋去。这样...
...别理解，想再问下如果句子改成 The iron ball has been heated to a high temperature, we found it began to melt. 正确吗？这样和独立主格结构的那句语意上有什么区别？谢谢！前面一个问题在：http://ask.yygrammar.com/q-25276.html
In this surgery today, you're gonna have to create a plane as thin as paper between two delicate layers of tissue without disrupting the major blood flow to the brain.请教老师，这里的as...as...是什么用法，这里前面是省略了which is吗？如果不是，那么这种用法的as从...
...个句子十分不解，Successful suits may result in fines hefty
enough to put many abortion practices out of business, an innovative
workaround.这个句子中的hefty enough to do 是做后置定语修饰fine么？后置定语有adj+enough+不定式这种形式？an innovative workaround 在这...
...olders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Coope but all who receive medical treatment.请问老师这个recruit是双宾语吗？Not only...but...做recruit的直接宾语 to its cause做recruit的间接...
The behavioral sciences has been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed.既然名词修饰名词作定语，表示分类、类别、用途等，这里的 behavioral 可以改为 behavior 吗？即 behavior sciences 表示行为一类的科学。