zadovoljiti se s preprosto hrano

1) (to use or occupy (space, time etc): I won't take up much of your time.) vzeti

2) (to begin doing, playing etc: He has taken up the violin/teaching.) začeti

3) (to shorten (clothes): My skirts were too long, so I had them taken up.) skrajšati

4) (to lift or raise; to pick up: He took up the book.) dvigniti

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transitive verb dvigniti, pobrati; gor odnesti, vzeti s seboj gor; vpi(ja)ti, absorbirati (tekočino, vlago); zavzemati, jemati (čas, prostor); vzeti (na ladjo, na vlak itd.) (potnike); ujeti, prijeti, aretirati; prekinitit, pasti v besedo, ugovarjati, motiti, popraviti (govornika); vzeti (koga) za varovanca; začeti (študij, branje itd.), lotiti se (posla, poklica, dela), vzeti v roke; baviti se (s čim); nadaljevati (govor, preiskavo, izpraševanje, zasliševanje itd.); medicine podvezati (žilo); povzeti (refren); pobrati (zanko); prevzeti (delnice); zategniti (jermen); pokupiti (knjige); sprejeti (službo); stanovati v; technical zatesniti; grajati; intransitive verb zadovoljiti se, strinjati se ( with z), vdati se v; technical zapreti se sam od sebe (spah, stik, vrzel); colloquially začeti ljubezensko razmerje; American začeti se (šola)

to take up the cudgels for figuratively krepko, goreče braniti, se zavzemati za

to take up current opinions — privzeti trenutna naziranja (mnenja)

to take up the gauntlet ( —ali glove) — pobrati rokavico, figuratively sprejeti izzivanje

to take up a thief — prijeti, ujeti tatu

to take up time — vzeti, jemati čas

to take up under debate economy diskontirati (menico)

to take up with plain food — zadovoljiti se s preprosto hrano

to be taken up with — biti zaposlen z, biti poglobljen v

sponges take up water — gobe vpijajo vodo

the train stopped to take up passengers — vlak se je ustavil, da bi vzel (nove) potnike

he takes up with a bad lot — druži se s tolpo malopridnežev