pick up

verb

1. gain or regain energy

e.g. I picked up after a nap

Synonym: perk upperkpercolategain vigor

2. improve significantly
go from bad to good

e.g. Her performance in school picked up

Synonym: turn around

3. lift out or reflect from a background

e.g. The scarf picks up the color of the skirt
His eyes picked up his smile

4. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

e.g. I learned that she has two grown-up children
I see that you have been promoted

Synonym: learnhearget wordget windfind outget a linediscoversee

5. eat by pecking at, like a bird

Synonym: peck

6. take up by hand

e.g. He picked up the book and started to read

7. take into custody

e.g. the police nabbed the suspected criminals

Synonym: collarnailapprehendarrestnabcop

8. fill with high spirits
fill with optimism

e.g. Music can uplift your spirits

Synonym: elatelift upupliftintoxicate

9. give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift

e.g. We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway

10. take and lift upward

Synonym: lift upgather up

11. register (perceptual input)

e.g. pick up a signal

Synonym: receive

12. perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily

e.g. I caught the aroma of coffee
He caught the allusion in her glance
ears open to catch every sound
The dog picked up the scent
Catch a glimpse

Synonym: catch

13. buy casually or spontaneously

e.g. I picked up some food for a snack

14. gather or collect

e.g. You can get the results on Monday
She picked up the children at the day care center
They pick up our trash twice a week

Synonym: collectgather upcall for

15. get in addition, as an increase

e.g. The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home

16. meet someone for sexual purposes

e.g. he always tries to pick up girls in bars

1. 拿起；提起；拾起；捡起
When you pick something up, you lift it up.

e.g. He picked his cap up from the floor and stuck it back on his head...
他从地板上拾起帽子，重新戴在头上。
e.g. Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled with it.
里德利拿起一支铅笔，不停地在手里摆弄着。

2. （跌倒或被击倒后）使（自己）慢慢站起（或爬起）
When you pick yourself up after you have fallen or been knocked down, you stand up rather slowly.

e.g. Anthony picked himself up and set off along the track.
安东尼自己慢慢爬起来，又开始沿着跑道跑下去。

3. （通常指开车）接载，取走
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.

e.g. We drove to the airport the next morning to pick up Susan...
我们第二天早晨开车去机场接苏姗。
e.g. She went over to her parents' house to pick up some clean clothes...
她去了趟父母家取些干净衣服。

4. 逮捕；拘捕
If someone is picked up by the police, they are arrested and taken to a police station.

e.g. Rawlings had been picked up by police at his office...
罗林斯已在办公室遭警察拘捕。
e.g. The police picked him up within the hour.
警察不到一小时就将他逮捕了。

5. （不费力地）获得，学会
If you pick up something such as a skill or an idea, you acquire it without effort over a period of time.

e.g. Where did you pick up your English?...
你在哪儿学的英语？
e.g. Young people are picking up ideas about good drugs and bad drugs.
年轻人正在形成毒品有好坏之分的观念。

6. （以发生性关系为目的）搭识，与…搭讪
If you pick up someone you do not know, you talk to them and try to start a sexual relationship with them.

e.g. He had picked her up at a nightclub on Kallari Street, where she worked as a singer.
他是在卡拉里街的一家夜总会和她搭上的，她在那儿当歌手。

7. 得（病）；染上（疾病）
If you pick up an illness, you get it from somewhere or something.

e.g. They've picked up a really nasty infection from something they've eaten.
他们因吃错东西而得了很严重的感染症。

8. 接收到（信号或声音）
If a piece of equipment, for example a radio or a microphone, picks up a signal or sound, it receives it or detects it.

e.g. We can pick up Italian television...
我们能收看到意大利电视台的节目。
e.g. The crew of Philante picked up a distress signal from the yacht Sans Peur III.
“菲蓝特”的船员接收到了“无畏者三号”游艇发出的遇险信号。

9. 发现，找到，识别（特点或模式）
If you pick up something, such as a feature or a pattern, you discover or identify it.

e.g. Consumers in Europe are slow to pick up trends in the use of information technology.
欧洲消费者在辨别信息技术应用的潮流上表现迟缓。

10. 重提，接过（观点或话题）
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.

e.g. Can I just pick up that gentleman's point?...
我能接着那位先生的意思往下说吗？
e.g. I'll pick up on what I said a couple of minutes ago.
我将回到几分钟前我说过的内容。

11. （贸易或经济）好转，改善
If trade or the economy of a country picks up, it improves.

e.g. Chinese officials hope that trade will pick up when the two countries switch to hard currency...
中方官员希望两国在转向使用硬通货后，贸易会有起色。
e.g. Industrial production is beginning to pick up.
工业生产开始好转。

12. （健康）好转，恢复
If someone picks up, or their health picks up, they get better.

e.g. A good dose of tonic will help you to pick up.
一剂好的补品将有助于身体康复。

13. 指出…的错误；纠正
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.

e.g. ...if I may pick you up on that point...
请允许我指出你在那一点上的错误…
e.g. Don't pick me up on words.
不要挑我的措词。

14. see also: pick-up

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