take up sth.简单

taking up odd jobs.

打零工

(46) There is a great deal of this kind of nonsense in the medical journals which, when taken up by broadcasters and the lay press, generates both health scares and short-lived dietary enthusiasms.

(46) 医学期刊上有大量这类胡说八道，一旦被广播电视和大众媒体采用，就会引发健康恐慌和短暂的饮食热潮。

A lot of students take up law as their profession due to ____

许多学生以法律为职业是由于____

The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War Ⅱ and took up posts at American architecture schools.

“少即是多”这一说法实际上最早是由德国建筑师路德维希·密斯·凡·德·罗推广开来的；他和其他与包豪斯设计学院有关的人一样，在二战前移居美国，并在美国的建筑院校任职。