sop up

1. Never dunk bread in your soup or use it to sop up sauces or juice on your plate.
   不要把面包扣在汤里或者是用面包来吸你盘子里面的酱汁和果汁。
2. My bandage would SOP the blood up all right.
   我的绷带会把滥血很好地吸掉的。
3. Sop up the water with this towel.
   用这块毛巾把水吸干。
4. Antioxidants sop up damaging free radicals that play a role in aging and age-related diseases.
   抗氧化剂吸收在老化和年龄相关性疾病中起作用的自由基。
5. But in a sop to investors, UBS will pay a token dividend this year and step up payments in future as a sign of its confidence.
   不过，为了安抚投资者，瑞银今年将派发一笔象征性股息，今后还将加大派息力度，以表明自己的信心。
6. "Sop up" what's going on in the world.
   “吸收”这个世界都发生了些什么。
7. China, it was alleged month after month, year after year, could no longer sop up the dollars needed to keep the renminbi from sharply appreciating against the dollar.
   月复一月，年复一年，分析人士不断声称，中国再也无力吸收美元，以阻止人民币兑美元汇率大幅升值了。
8. Funds and funds of hedge funds raced to market, ready to sop up all demand for investments deemed alternative.
   资金和对冲基金纷纷跑到市场，准备全部吸收视作另类的投资需求。
9. Triethyleneglycol widely used as dehydration solvent in natural gas industry, it has many advantages such as thermodynamics stabilization, strong sop up and low steam pressure.
   三甘醇因其具热稳定性好、吸水性强、蒸汽压低等优点，作为天然气脱水溶剂得到了广泛的应用。
10. Accelerating the pace of setting up standard operation practice in laboratory of TCM
    加快中医药实验室标准操作程序（SOP）建设

verb

1. take up as if with a sponge

   Synonym:    take insuck intake up

2. take in, also metaphorically
   1. The sponge absorbs water well
   2. She drew strength from the minister's words

   Synonym:    absorbsuckimbibesoak upsuck updrawtake intake up