Ladies, you wouldn't have to constantly nag someone to take care of the dishes piling up in the sink or take out the trash.

女士们，你不用向某人唠叨，要他收拾堆在洗碗池里的餐具，或倒掉垃圾。

youdao

If you are leaving a job to take your new job, know that the new job you find and take in late May or in early June won't be a step up, no matter what they tell you.

如果你已经打定主意要在五月底六月初换新工作，记住，不管对方口头上怎么说，新工作可没什么飞跃。

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It can take up to four weeks for the alcohol to dry out completely in an airtight container, and the whole process can take up to three months.

要在密闭容器中完全蒸干酒液滴，需要耗费四周时间；而制作这些图片的整个过程，需要耗费3个月。

youdao

"Military experts tell us that it could take up to ten more years to achieve any acceptable outcome in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

So, what I want to do now is, with that background in mind, I want to take this up and just open up the first few pages.

所以我想要做的事，记着这个背景，我想要打开几页小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And instead of having the electron giving off energy as a photon, instead now the electron is going to take in energy from light and move up to that higher level.

与电子以光子形式施放能量不同,我们现在要从光中,获得能量到一个更高的能级。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Janet Finch Saunders AM noted the decline in GCSE take up of STEM subjects and the fact that take up at A level has not increased in line with overall A level entries as she called on the government to introduce a programme encouraging highly talented people into STEM subject teaching.

BBC: Debate on science and innovation

We should have known that it wouldn't take long for someone in congress to take up the fight to re-legalize cellphone unlocking.

ENGADGET

But this is -- this isn't a step for us to take, this is a step for the North Koreans to take in living up to -- living up to those obligations.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing