clean up ( cleaning, cleaned, cleaner, cleans, cleanest )

• 1. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things neat and free of dirt again. 收拾干净

  例：

  Police in the city have been cleaning up the debris left by a day of violent confrontation.

  城里的警察一直在收拾一天的暴力冲突留下的残骸。

• 2. 

  PHRASAL VERB To clean up something such as the environment or an industrial process means to make it free from substances or processes that cause pollution. 治理 (污染)

  例：

  Under pressure from the public, many regional governments cleaned up their beaches.

  迫于公众的压力，许多地区政府治理了海滩污染。

• 3. 

  PHRASAL VERB If the police or authorities clean up a place or area of activity, they make it free from crime, corruption, and other unacceptable forms of behaviour. 整治 (犯罪、腐败和其他不良行为)

  例：

  After years of neglect and decline, the city was cleaning itself up.

  在多年的荒废和衰退之后，该城市在进行自我整治。

• 4. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you go and clean up, you make yourself clean and neat, especially after doing something that has made you dirty. 使 (自己) 整洁

  例：

  Johnny, go inside and get cleaned up.

  约翰尼，进去把自己收拾收拾。