sop up

常见例句

Boats managed to sop up about 1 million barrels of the estimated 4 million barrels from the ruptured Macondo well, showing how widely the oil has spread.
从破裂的马孔多油井漏出估计达四百万桶，清污船设法打捞出其中一百万桶，可见原油扩散的有多大。
Many of these buyers appear confident that foreign companies will continue to pour into China's big cities, and expatriates will sop up the many still-empty apartments.
很多人坚信外资企业将继续涌入中国，驻华的外国人会将大城市许多空置的公寓一抢而空。
After experiments to see how much oil he could sop up with hair clippings, he invented the hairmat to effectively clean up oil-spilled waters.
在多次试验中他统计了用剪下来的头发可以吸收多少油量，然后他就发明了用头发织成的席子来净化油污染的水源的方法。

The rail holding and utilities fulfilled his need to get invested in GDP properties and sop up cash.
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