英语句子中的一个短语不懂,SuchtheoriesimplythattheIndo-EuropeanlanguagesevolvednotinNeolithic(10,000to3,000B.C.)Anatolia,butamongtheforagingcommunitiesoftheculturesintheregionoftheDonandDnieperrivers,whichto

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英语句子中的一个短语不懂,
Such theories imply that the Indo-European languages evolved not in Neolithic (10,000 to 3,000 B.C.) Anatolia,but among the foraging communities of the cultures in the region of the Don and Dnieper rivers,which took up stock breeding and began to exploit the neighboring steppes.
我不懂得是 took up stock breeding
stock breeding 是一个整体么?
took up

Answer 1

take up是开始从事某事的意思,stock breeding是指畜牧业.