1、take up

開始從事;喜歡上

He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport.

他并不特別想從事競技體育運動。

He left a job in the City to take up farming.

他辭去倫敦商業區的工作，開始務農。

開始處理;討論如何處理

Mr de Garis's MP, Max Madden, took up the case.

德加里斯先生的下議員馬克斯·馬登開始著手處理這個問題。

Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.

能夠提供環境威脅證據的大多數科學家都有理由認為，環保團體不會放過這個問題。

接受，答應(提議或挑戰)

Increasingly, more wine-makers are taking up the challenge of growing Pinot Noir.

越來越多的釀酒商開始接受種植黑皮諾葡萄的挑戰。

96 per cent of the eligible employees took up the offer.

符合條件的雇員有 96% 接受了這個條件。

2、infiltrate

滲透，潛入(地方、組織中等)

Activists had infiltrated the student movement.

激進分子已經滲入到了學生運動中。

The street protests had been infiltrated by people bent on violence.

街頭抗議的人群中已經滲入了一些傾向于暴力的人。

使滲入;使滲透

Some countries have infiltrated their agents into the Republic.

一些國家已派間諜滲入了該共和國內部。