clear up

phrasal verbphr v

a) TIDYto make a place look tidier by putting things back where they belong 收拾，整理；拾掇

I don’t mind you using the kitchen as long as you clear up afterwards.

只要你用过厨房后把它收拾好，我不介意让你使用。

clear something ↔ up

Adam, clear up this mess before your father sees it.

亚当，这里乱七八糟的，快收拾干净，别让你爸看到。

after

I get really tired of clearing up after you (=tidying places that you have made untidy).

我实在不想再跟在你后面收拾了。

b) clear something ↔ upSOLVE/FIND THE ANSWER to explain or solve something, or make it easier to understand 解释；解决；澄清

The White House hopes these problems can be cleared up soon.

白宫希望这些问题很快就能解决。

There are a couple of points we need to clear up before the meeting begins.

开会前，我们还需澄清几点。

c) IMPROVEif the weather clears up, it gets better 〔天气〕好转，转晴

d) RECOVER/GET BETTERif an illness or infection clears up, it disappears 〔疾病或感染〕痊愈，消失

Examples from the Corpus

clear up• It'll take ages to clear this up.• It looked as if Marie had already cleared the place up.• I was hoping that your research would clear up a question that has been bothering me.• I spend my life clearing up after the children.• Who's going to clear up after the party?• Can you clear something up for us? How old are you?• The Dreyfus case was never completely cleared up. It remains a mystery.• Wait for me, I just need to clear up my desk.• John's offered to clear up the churchyard this weekend.• Someone's got to clear up this mess!

clear after• Always clear up after a picnic and never drop litter 9 Help to keep all water clean.• Did her own work and didn't expect me to clear up after her.• They also had to clear up after passengers who were airsick.• These infections cleared up after standard treatment and temporary discontinuation of the cyclosporin.• An army of workmen and volunteers worked all day to clear up after the raiders flooded the main stand.• You clear up after yourself, gal?

→ clear up at clear2(PHRASAL VERB)

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