| 单词 | pick up |
| 释义 | pick up 1. phrasal verb A2 When you pick something up, you lift it up. He picked his cap up from the floor and stuck it back on his head. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled with it. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb When you pick yourself up after you have fallen or been knocked down, you stand up rather slowly. Anthony picked himself up and set off along the track. [VERB pronoun-reflexive PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb B1+ When you pick up someone or something that is waiting to be collected, you go to the place where they are and take them away, often in a car. We drove to the airport the next morning to pick up Susan. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] She went over to her parents' house to pick up some clean clothes. [VERB PARTICLE noun] I picked her up at Covent Garden to take her to lunch with my mother. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 4. phrasal verb If someone is picked up by the police, they are arrested and taken to a police station. Rawlings had been picked up by police at his office. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] The police picked him up within the hour. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 5. phrasal verb B2 If you pick up something such as a skill or an idea, you acquire it without effort over a period of time. [informal] Where did you pick up your English? [VERB PARTICLE noun] She picks up ideas from other chefs. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 6. phrasal verb If you pick up someone you do not know, you talk to them and try to start a sexual relationship with them. [informal] He had picked her up at a nightclub on Kallari Street, where she worked as a singer. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 7. phrasal verb If you pick up an illness, you get it from somewhere or something. They've picked up a really nasty infection from something they've eaten. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 8. phrasal verb If a piece of equipment, for example a radio or a microphone, picks up a signal or sound, it receives it or detects it. We can pick up Italian television. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The crew of Philante picked up a distress signal from the yacht Sans Peur III. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 9. phrasal verb If you pick up something, such as a feature or a pattern, you discover or identify it. They were slow to pick up trends in consumer behaviour. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 10. phrasal verb If someone picks up a point or topic that has already been mentioned, or if they pick up on it, they refer to it or develop it. Can I just pick up that gentleman's point? [VERB PARTICLE noun] I'll pick up on what I said a couple of minutes ago. [VERB PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] 11. phrasal verb If trade or the economy of a country picks up, it improves. Chinese officials hope that trade will pick up when the two countries switch to hard currency. [VERB PARTICLE] Industrial production is beginning to pick up. [VERB PARTICLE] 12. phrasal verb If someone picks up, or their health picks up, they get better. A good dose of tonic will help you to pick up. [VERB PARTICLE] 13. phrasal verb If you pick someone up on something that they have said or done, you mention it and tell them that you think it is wrong. [mainly British] ...if I may pick you up on that point. [VERB noun PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] Don't pick me up on words. [VERB noun PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] 14. See also pick-up 15. See pick up the pieces 16. See full dictionary entry for pick See pick up speed pick-up also pickup Word forms: pick-ups 1. countable noun A pick-up or a pick-up truck is a small truck with low sides that can be easily loaded and unloaded. 2. singular noun A pick-up in trade or in a country's economy is an improvement in it. ...a pick-up in the housing market. [+ in] The economy remains deep in recession with few signs of a pick-up. Synonyms: improvement, recovery, rise, gain 3. countable noun [usually NOUN noun] A pick-up takes place when someone picks up a person or thing that is waiting to be collected. The company had pick-up points in most cities. Trains will operate from Waterloo with a pick-up stop at Ashford. 4. countable noun When a pick-up takes place, someone talks to a person in a friendly way in the hope of having a casual sexual relationship with them. [informal] They had come to the world's most famous pick-up joint. Translations: Chinese: 捡起 Japanese: 持ち上げる |
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