mop up

基本解釋

they have a more robust antioxidant system, which mops up destructive free radicals.
小時，提示，學習能力較強的蜜蜂具有更好的抗氧化系統(tǒng)，可以清除自由基的破壞。
It then mops up this excess liquidity by issuing bills (as “sterilisation”) or by lifting banks’ reserve requirements.
然後央行再發(fā)行大量票據(jù)或者通過提高商業(yè)銀行的準備金率要求來抹乾超額的流動性。
Levitt wonders absently, in a tone that suggests no personal investment in the outcome, while Dubner mops up the puddle.
李維特用一種建議在最後不要進行個人投資的語氣心不在焉地說道，而這時候，達博納正在擦掉地板上的汙漬。

Although that mops up HIV from the bloodstream, the virus then passes from the red blood cells to the white immune-system cells most susceptible to infection.
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If you mop up a liquid, you clean it with a cloth so that the liquid is absorbed.
If you mop up something that you think is undesirable or dangerous, you remove it or deal with it so that it is no longer a problem.