taken up with

Much of the second half is taken up with the devilishly tricky business of trying to extract causation from correlation.

下半部分的大部分内容处理的是努力从相关性引出因果关系这种特别微妙的做法。

Almost three-and-a-half hours of a woman's day is taken up with domestic work, compared to less than two hours for men.

女人一天中差不多有三个半小时用来做家务，相比之下男人只花费不到两小时。

He seems to be very much taken up with that tall Swedish girl.

他似乎对那位高个子瑞典女孩特别感兴趣。

She's taken up with a man old enough to be her father, which is a disgrace to her parents.

她最近和足以做她父亲的老头好上了。这使她的父母感到非常丢脸。

The question of public housing should be taken up with the Minister whose responsibility it is.

公众的住房问题应该提交负责这项工作的部长考虑。

She has taken up with a man old enough to be his father, which is a disgrace to her parents.

她最近和足以做他父亲的老头好上了。这使她父母感到分厂丢脸。

Much of the book is taken up with judgments on the people who were trying to remake the world from Washington.

书中许多处都对想从华盛顿开始重组世界的人的评判表示赞同。

The central area of the screen is taken up with a full description of the company record.

屏幕中心区域显示某条公司记录的完整描述。

The rest of August was taken up with bill signings, the party conventions, and a positive development in Whitewater World.

8月的其它时间，我都在忙着签署法案，参加党内大会，白水事件的调查也出现了积极进展。

Most of its equipment budget is already taken up with existing programmes, commissioned long ago with bills to be paid for years to come.

其列出的大部分设备预算已经被现存的项目占据---这些项目几年前就已授权执行，并且费用在未来几年付清。

But a good half of each twenty-second increment was typically taken up with preliminaries and formalities.

但是一个打得好的20秒一般都由准备攻击和正式攻击组成。

Mary's taken up with a man old enough to be her father.

玛丽和一个年龄大得足以做她父亲的男人混在一起。

Much of his childhood and adolescence was taken up with tours, which included performances before many of the royal courts of Europe.

他的童年和少年的大部分时光都是在旅途上度过的，其中也包括在欧洲许多宫廷中的演出。

The first few months she was so taken up with fine clothes, balls, and plays that she thought of nothing else.

在头几个月里，她对华丽的服装、舞会、演出呀这些事情感兴趣极了，也无暇想别的事。

The unprecedented scale of the evidence meant that much of the first two years were taken up with amassing evidence.

史无前例的佐证规模意味头两年顶多在着手收集证据。

Most of the rear wall was taken up with a duty roster and two bulletin boards festooned with typewritten notices and circulars.

后墙大部份被一个值班花名册和两个广告板占满，上面打字的通知和通告成为花彩形。

Much of the book is taken up with the first aim, approached by studying the 'cash nexus' that links politics and economics.

这本书大部分的篇幅都在谈论第一个主题，研究连接政治和经济的“现金关系”。

The final two terms are taken up with an in-company project, followed by a series of electives and capstone courses before exams.

最后的两个学期采用的是公司内部的项目，随后就是一系列的选修课和考试前的顶峰课程。

Whenever she asked after him, the answer was, he was away from home, or he was quite taken up with business.

每次问起他的时候，听到的回答总是，他不在家，或者他事情很忙。

Her parents could not understand why she had taken up with an unemployed actor.

她的父母很不明白她为什么会和一个失业的男演员交往。