取とり上あげる

ichidan verb, transitive verb

pick up; take up in one's hand

Physical use: to lift or take something into one's hand, especially from a surface or nearby place. Often more deliberate than simply 拾う.

• 彼かれは机つくえの上うえの受じゅ話わ器きを取とり上あげた。

  He picked up the receiver from the desk.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

take up; adopt; accept; listen to

Used when a proposal, request, complaint, question, or topic is accepted for consideration or made a subject of discussion. 採り上げる is sometimes used for this sense, but 取り上げる is the standard spelling.

• 委い員いん会かいは住じゅう民みんの要よう望ぼうを取とり上あげた。

  The committee took up the residents' request.

• 来らい週しゅうの授じゅ業ぎょうでは環かん境きょう問もん題だいを取とり上あげます。

  In next week's class, we will take up environmental issues.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

take issue with; make a problem of; bring up critically

Critical or confrontational use: to single something out as a problem, fault, or point for criticism.

• 彼かれは私わたしの言いい間ま違ちがいを取とり上あげて、しつこく責せめた。

  He seized on my slip of the tongue and kept blaming me for it.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

cover; report on; feature

Media and publishing use: newspapers, TV programs, websites, and similar outlets cover or feature a topic, incident, person, or place.

• 新しん聞ぶんはその事じ件けんを一いち面めんで大おおきく取とり上あげた。

  The newspaper gave the incident major front-page coverage.

• その番ばん組ぐみでは地じ元もとの店みせを取とり上あげている。

  That program features local shops.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

take away; confiscate; deprive someone of; revoke

Removal use: to take something from someone by authority or force. It can be physical, as with confiscating an object, or institutional, as with stripping a title, right, qualification, or benefit.

• 先せん生せいは授じゅ業ぎょう中ちゅうにゲーム機きを取とり上あげた。

  The teacher confiscated the game device during class.

• ドーピングが発はっ覚かくし、選せん手しゅはメダルを取とり上あげられた。

  Doping was discovered, and the athlete was stripped of the medal.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

deliver a baby

Obstetric or midwifery use: said of the doctor or midwife who delivers or receives the baby, not of the mother giving birth.

• その助じょ産さん師しはこれまでに多おおくの赤あかちゃんを取とり上あげてきた。

  That midwife has delivered many babies over the years.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

collect taxes

Limited and uncommon in modern everyday Japanese for tax collection; modern prose normally uses verbs such as 徴収する. It is safest understood in contexts involving taxes, dues, or older-style levies such as 年貢.

• 古ふるい文ぶん書しょでは「年ねん貢ぐを取とり上あげる」が、税ぜいや年ねん貢ぐを徴ちょう収しゅうする意い味みで使つかわれることがある。

  In older documents, 年貢を取り上げる can be used to mean collecting taxes or annual tribute.