take up with

親しくなる、付き合い始める

誰かと親しい友人関係や恋愛関係を始める。

やさしい英語で： To start a close friendship or romantic relationship with someone.

• He has taken up with a new crowd.
• She took up with an old friend after the divorce.
• Why did you take up with those people?

使い方： take up with someone (She took up with a musician from the village.)

類義語： befriend, get involved with

よく使う表現： take up with someone, take up with strangers

一緒に上へ持っていく、一緒に上へ連れていく

自分が上へ行くとき、人や物も一緒に連れていったり持っていったりする。

やさしい英語で： To bring someone or something to a higher place while going there yourself.

• Take the box up with you.
• She took her children up with her to the hilltop.
• Can you take these tools up with you?

使い方： take someone/something up with someone (Take the bags up with you when you go upstairs.)

類義語： bring up, carry up

よく使う表現： take something up with someone, take someone up with someone

興味を持ち始める

あるテーマや活動、考えに興味を持ち始める。

やさしい英語で： To begin to feel interested in a subject, activity, or idea.

• She took up with spiritualism.
• As a young man, he took up with radical ideas.
• He had taken up with a new philosophy of life.

使い方： take up with something (He took up with new ideas about education.)

類義語： become interested in

よく使う表現： take up with something, take up with ideas

同居し始める、身を寄せる

誰かと同じ家で暮らし始めたり、その人の家に泊まり始めたりする。

やさしい英語で： To start living in the same home as someone, or staying in their home.

• He took up with a local family.
• She took up with her widowed sister after selling her house.
• They had taken up with relatives in the next village.

使い方： take up with someone (After leaving home, he took up with his aunt.)

類義語： move in with, lodge with

よく使う表現： take up with someone, take up with relatives