| 词组 | pick up |
| 释义 | pick up 1. pick up sth/sb • pick sth/sb up to lift something or someone up, especially with your hands: ▪ Maurin picked up the gun and put it in a pocket. ▪ Picking up her bag she rushed out of the room. ▪ The little girl's mother laughed and bent down to pick her up. pick up the phone (=lift up the phone so that you can use it) ▪ The phone rang, and he picked it up. ■ SIMILAR TO: lift (up) ■ OPPOSITE: put down 2. pick up sb/sth • pick sb/sth up to collect someone from a place where they are waiting for you, or something that is ready to be collected: ▪ I went to pick Korey up from the airport. ▪ When she called in at the garage to pick up her car, she was presented with a bill for over $1000. ▪ The boys were eventually picked up by a rescue boat and taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑collect pick-up n C when you go somewhere to collect something that you have arranged to buy or take somewhere else: ▪ Drug dealers used the place for pick-ups of heroin and cocaine. ▪ Can you wait in the pick-up area while I bring the car around? pickup truck/pickup n C a small truck with an open area at the back in which goods can be carried 3. pick up sb • pick sb up if you pick someone up while you are travelling in a car or other vehicle, you stop so that they can get in with you and travel with you: ▪ We stopped to pick up a couple of hitchhikers, who said they were trying to get to Athens. ■ SIMILAR TO: give sb a lift 4. pick up sth • pick sth up to get or buy something, especially something that you find by chance and buy for a low price: ▪ Did you manage to pick up any bargains in the sales? ▪ They both loved the painting. Arnold had picked it up in the sixties for just a few pounds. 5. pick up sth • pick sth up to get or buy something, especially in a place that you have gone to for another purpose: ▪ If you're going into town, can you pick up a magazine for me? ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑get 6. pick up sth • pick sth up to get or win something such as a prize or votes in an election, or something that helps you be successful: ▪ Last year the movie picked up six Academy Awards, including best actor and best screenplay. ▪ The Democrats are likely to pick up more than 50% of the votes. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑get, ↑win 7. pick sth up • pick up sth to learn how to do something by watching or listening to other people or by practising doing it, rather than by being taught: ▪ While I was in Tokyo I picked up quite a bit of Japanese. ▪ The system's easy to use. You'll soon pick it up. ■ SIMILAR TO: learn 8. pick sth up • pick sth up to learn about something such as a useful piece of information, an interesting idea, or story about someone: ▪ I went to see Lucy, hoping to pick up some juicy gossip. pick up a tip (=a useful piece of information) ▪ Here's a useful tip I picked up the other day. Cover the beans in cooking oil before you plant them. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑find out 9. pick up sth • pick sth up to get an infectious disease: ▪ She's got a nasty cough. We think she must have picked it up at school. ▪ Charles may have picked up malaria when he was in Africa. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑get, ↑catch, ↑contract formal 10. pick up sth • pick sth up if you pick up a habit or a way of speaking or behaving, you start to do it because you have spent a lot time with a particular group of people or in a particular place: ▪ The children had all picked up strong local accents while they were at school. ▪ It's said that British soldiers picked up the habit of drinking wine in France during the war. ■ SIMILAR TO: acquire formal 11. pick up sth • pick sth up to earn a particular amount of money for your work, especially a surprisingly large amount: ▪ Top city lawyers can pick up well over $100,000 a year. ■ SIMILAR TO: earn 12. pick up if a situation picks up, it starts to improve after a time when there have been a lot of problems - use this especially about a company's business or the economic situation in a country: ▪ In recent months the economy has started to pick up again. ▪ Don't worry, I'm sure things will soon pick up. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑improve, get better pick-up n singular a time when trade, business, or the economic situation improves: ▪ There's been a pick-up in sales over the last quarter. pick-me-up n C a drink that makes you feel better and gives you more energy 13. pick up • pick up sth • pick sth up to start doing something again from the point where you or someone else stopped before, for example a story, conversation, relationship, or a period of success: ▪ La Plante's new detective thriller picks up at the point where the previous one ended. pick up where sb/sth left off ▪ When he came back on court, Sampras picked up again where he'd left off, and won the match easily. ■ SIMILAR TO: resume, ↑take up 14. pick up sb • pick sb up to start talking to someone who you have never met before in order to have a sexual relationship with them: ▪ Bridget woke up with some strange man who she'd picked up at a party the night before. ▪ He went around picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them. pick-up n singular when you start talking to someone you have never met because you want to have a sexual relationship with them: ▪ I was just being friendly, but she thought this was some sort of pick-up. ▪ bars and pick-up joints (=places where people go to meet people so that they can have sex with them) 15. pick up sb • pick sb up if the police pick up someone, especially a criminal or someone they have been looking for, they stop them and take them somewhere to ask them questions: ▪ Police officers were waiting to pick him up for questioning when he arrived at Moscow airport. ▪ Angel was picked up by police half a mile from her home, after her parents had called in to say she was missing. 16. pick up sth • pick sth up if electronic equipment picks up sounds, radio signals, or programmes, it receives them and makes it possible for you to listen to them or watch them: ▪ The Titanic's distress signal was picked up by other vessels in the area. ▪ If you have a short-wave radio you can pick up the BBC World Service. ▪ Microphones tend to pick up a lot of background noise, which then has to be edited out. ■ SIMILAR TO: receive 17. pick up sth • pick up sth to notice a smell or signs that show that someone or something is there or has been there: ▪ The dog picked up the missing child's scent, and followed the trail to some bushes. 18. pick up sth • pick sth up to notice a mistake or something that seems odd about something: ▪ Don't worry about spelling mistakes - the spell-checker should pick any of them up. ■ SIMILAR TO: spot, detect, ↑identify 19. pick yourself up to get up off the ground and stand after you have fallen down: ▪ Curtis picked himself up and looked around for his wallet. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑get up 20. pick up the bill/the tab to pay a bill for someone: ▪ The government will have to pick up the bill for all the damage. ▪ We went out for a meal in a fancy restaurant, and she picked up the tab. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pay 21. pick up speed/steam if a vehicle or ship picks up speed or steam, it starts to move more quickly: ▪ The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑speed up, accelerate ■ OPPOSITE: slow down 22. pick up sth AmE informal to make a place tidy: ▪ You can't go out until you pick up your room. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑clean up, ↑tidy up BrE 23. the wind picks up if the wind picks up, it starts to get stronger: ▪ That evening the wind picked up and storm clouds started moving over from the east. |
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