把活動後的場地整理乾淨
寫作用途
make a place neat after an activity
After art club, we cleaned up the tables before going home.
美術社結束後，我們把桌子整理乾淨才回家。
寫作技巧
Use clean up for making a place neat. With a noun, both clean up the tables and clean the tables up are possible.
飛機離開地面起飛
寫作用途
leave the ground and begin a flight
At sunrise, our plane took off above the quiet city.
日出時，我們的飛機從安靜的城市上空起飛。
寫作技巧
Here, take off is intransitive: an aircraft leaves the ground. Clothing and time-away-from-work meanings are outside this item.
大量消耗時間、精力或資源
寫作用途
use a large amount of time or energy
One careless restart burned up our remaining rehearsal time.
一次不小心的重來耗掉了我們剩餘的排練時間。
寫作技巧
Burn up can emphasize quick or wasteful use. Here it takes time as its object; the literal fire meaning is not intended.
目前暫時如此，之後可能改變
寫作用途
for now while a situation may still change
For the time being, we are sharing the smaller classroom.
目前我們暫時共用那間較小的教室。
寫作技巧
For the time being marks a temporary arrangement. It can begin or end a clause and implies that change remains possible.
把某樣東西用到完全沒有
寫作用途
use all of something until none remains
We shortened the discussion when we ran out of time.
時間用完時，我們縮短了討論。
寫作技巧
The resource user is the subject of run out of. Compare our group ran out of time with our time ran out, which drops of.
活動、故事或時段走到結束
寫作用途
reach the point when something finally finishes
At midnight, the long online contest finally came to an end.
午夜時，漫長的線上競賽終於結束了。
寫作技巧
The event or period is the subject, and the tense changes on come. The expression presents an ending as a point reached over time.
有一段不用上班或上課的休息時間
寫作用途
have a period when work or school stops
Mia had time off and cooked lunch with her grandfather.
Mia 放假時和祖父一起做了午餐。
寫作技巧
Time off is uncountable. To name an amount, say have two days off, without time.