pick up ( picking, picked, picks )

• 1. 

  PHRASAL VERB When you pick something up, you lift it up. 拾起

  例：

  He picked his cap up from the floor and stuck it back on his head.

  他从地板上捡起帽子，重新戴在头上。

• 2. 

  PHRASAL VERB When you pick yourself up after you have fallen or been knocked down, you stand up rather slowly. (跌倒或被击倒后) 慢慢站起身

  例：

  Tony picked himself up and set off along the track.

  托尼慢慢站起，沿道跑起来。

• 3. 

  PHRASAL VERB 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. (开车) 接; 取

  例：

  She was going over to her parents' house to pick up some clean clothes for Oskar.

  她正要去父母家为奥斯卡取几件干净的衣服。

• 4. 

  PHRASAL VERB If someone is picked up by the police, they are arrested and taken to a police station. 逮捕

  例：

  Rawlings had been picked up by police at his office.

  罗林斯在他的办公室被警察逮捕了。

• 5. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you pick up something such as a skill or an idea, you acquire it without effort over a period of time. (不费力地) 学会; 获得 [非正式]

  例：

  Where did you pick up your English?

  你是在哪儿学得英语？

• 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. 勾搭 [非正式]

  例：

  He had picked her up at a nightclub, where she worked as a singer.

  他是在一家夜总会勾搭上她的，她在那儿当歌女。

• 7. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you pick up an illness, you get it from somewhere or something. 染上 (疾病)

  例：

  They've picked up a really nasty infection from something they've eaten.

  他们因食用某物而染上非常严重的传染病。

• 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. 接收 (信号或声音)

  例：

  We can pick up Mexican television.

  我们可以接收到墨西哥电视。

• 9. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you pick up something, such as a feature or a pattern, you discover or identify it. 发现; 识别

  例：

  Some groups of consumers are slow to pick up trends in the use of information technology.

  有些顾客群对信息技术应用方面的潮流反应迟钝。

• 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. 接起 (某观点、话题)

  例：

  Can I just pick up that guy's point?

  我能接着谈一下那个人的观点吗？

• 11. 

  PHRASAL VERB If trade or the economy of a country picks up, it improves. (贸易、经济) 改善

  例：

  Industrial production is beginning to pick up.

  工业生产正在开始好转。

• 12. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you pick up a room or house, you tidy it. 整理 (房间、房子) [美国英语]

  例：

  She decided to start picking up the house from the top down.

  她决定开始彻底收拾那房子。

• 13. 

  → see also pickup

• 14. 

  PHRASE When a vehicle picks up speed, it begins to move more quickly. 加速

  例：

  Brian started the engine and pulled away slowly, but picked up speed once he entered Oakwood Drive.

  布赖恩发动引擎，慢慢驶离，但上了奥克伍德大道后就开始加速。