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pick up

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Examples from the Corpus
pick up• Do you want me to come back and pick you guys up?• He's hoping to pick up a few bargains at the sales.• I picked up a few words of Turkish when I was in Istanbul.• I picked up a stomach bug on holiday in Turkey.• Hi, I've come to pick up a suit I left on Tuesday.• I told Virginia I'd pick her up about 8:00.• I feel like I spend all my time picking up after the kids.• After the phone had rung twice, Joyce picked it up and said hello.• Brendan has a cold. He must have picked it up at school.• Financial commentators think we'll see the economy starting to pick up early next year.• Can you pick some milk up from the shop on your way home?• Come on Bob, pick up! I know you're there.• At present the hotel is almost empty, but I'm sure things will start to pick up in the spring.• I arranged to pick up Mr Clarke and take him to his accommodation.• "Where's Diana?" "She just left to pick up the kids from school."• Could you pick up the newspapers and magazines for me?• I'll pick up the tickets on my way home from work.• A lifeboat picked them up two miles from the coast.• Help me pick these things up. We have company coming.• It's just a little thing I picked up when I was in Kathmandu.
pick yourself up• A team in such a position is likely to find it hard to pick itself up.• Shaken and deafened, I picked myself up.• I crashed to the ground, picked myself up, and began staggering around the car to the other side.• Carol picked herself up and dusted herself off.• He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor.• Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again.• Although he picked himself up and walked away, he knew something was wrong.• I fell, picked myself up, lurched forward another yard or two, then fell again.• However, Grimm was already picking himself up, swearing, dusting himself off, retrieving his cap.
things are picking up• Well, things are picking up again.
pick up speed/steam• Of course, good melody will sound fine at any tempo, so play slowly and gradually pick up speed.• The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.• The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.• As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m.• The coach picked up speed as it rattled and jolted down to Forty-second Street.• Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.• If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
pick up the bill/tab (for something)• After its shareholder equity turned negative last year, parent Dasa started picking up the bills.• But remember - raid your savings now and Santa won't pick up the bill.• Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.• When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.• In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.• I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.• The company's picking up the bill for my trip to Hawaii.• There is a growing, often unstated, anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services.• Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten, twenty or thirty years.
pick up the pieces (of something)• It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.• This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces.• Whimper like a whipped puppy, Jay, have a drink and pick up the pieces.• The town is beginning to pick up the pieces after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.• As proved by history, women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war.• Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.• I picked up the pieces myself.• In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.• In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives.
pick up the threads (of something)• She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.• The good thing is that he's trying to pick up the threads of his life again.• Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.
pick your feet up• Ronnie, stop shuffling and pick your feet up.
Related topics: Motor vehicles
ˈpick-up noun
1. vehicle 交通工具 [countableC] especially American EnglishAmETTC a small truck with low sides that is used for carrying goods 小貨車，皮卡貨車 →5 see picture at 見圖 truck1
2  improvement 改善 [countableC] an improvement in something which will be good for economic success 〔對經濟有益的〕好轉
pick-up in
There are signs of a pick-up in high street spending.
商業區消費出現好轉迹象。
3  collection 收取 [countableC, uncountableU] an occasion when someone or something is collected from a place 接人；取物
The price includes travel from your local pick-up point in the UK to your hotel in Paris.
這個價格包括從英國當地的上車點到巴黎酒店之間的旅費。
trash pick-up
垃圾收集
4. person 人 [countableC] informalSEX/HAVE SEX WITH a stranger that you meet in a bar, at a party etc and have sex with 〔在酒吧、聚會等中爲發生性關系而〕偶然結識的人，勾搭到的人
5. music 音樂 [countableC] an electronic part on a musical instrument, especially an electric guitar, that makes the sound louder 〔樂器，尤指電吉他的〕拾音器
6  speed 速度 [uncountableU] American EnglishAmETTC the rate at which a vehicle can increase its speed 〔汽車的〕加速能力 SYN acceleration
It was a small car, but it had good pick-up.
這車雖小，可加速能力很強。
Examples from the Corpus
pick-up• Malls could be used more as a pick-up point for merchandise after orders are made online.• A sports car, a pick-up, a retro car?• Over the radio comes the call for a pick-up in the next street over.• a pick-up in textbook sales• I am not a bar pick-up kind of person, and I usually find the whole scene pretty cheesy.• a shuttle-bus pick-up• My old car had excellent pick-up.• Garbage pick-ups are on Tuesdays and Fridays.• Dad's old pick-up was parked outside.• The Waterbase brush has a special mix of synthetic filaments designed for optimum paint pick-up.
pick-up point• Furthermore, it's all very well saying that there are 22 pick-up points but how do you get to them?• Malls could be used more as a pick-up point for merchandise after orders are made online.• But a car was seen slowing down at what might have been a pick-up point on the A12.• There was a horseshoe put-down and pick-up point between an ascending and descending ramp but parking there was prohibited.• Our house was less than a kilometre from the pick-up point.• Exact timings and location of your pick-up point will be forwarded to you with your travel documentation.
From Longman Business Dictionary
pick up phrasal verbphr v
1[intransitiveI] if business or trade picks up, it improves
2[transitiveT] pick something → up informal to buy something, especially for a low price
Homes here can be picked up for as little as £30,000.
3pick up the bill/tab informal to pay for something, especially when it is not your responsibility to pay
The contractors do not want to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making.
→ pick
pick-upˈpick-up noun
1[countableC usually singular] an improvement or increase in a type of economic activity
pick-up in
There are signs of a pick-up in high street spending.
2 (also pick-up truck) [countableC] especially American EnglishAmE a small truck with low sides that is used for carrying goods
3[countableC, uncountableU] an occasion when someone or something is collected from a place
A pick-up had been arranged for 5.30pm.
Where’s the pick-up point?

pick up

pick up
phrasal verbphr v 
a) lift STH/SB up 撿起[拿起,拾起]某物；舉起某人LIFT pick something/somebody ↔ up to lift something or someone up 撿起，拿起，舉起
He picked up the letter and read it.
他拿起信看了起來。
The phone rang and I picked it up.
電話響了，我接了起來。
Mummy, can you pick me up?
媽媽，把我抱起來好嗎？
b) pick yourself upLIFT to get up from the ground after you have fallen 〔跌倒後〕站起來
Carol picked herself up and brushed the dirt off her coat.
卡羅爾站起身，拍去外套上的灰塵。
c) tidy STH 整理某物 pick something ↔ up American EnglishAmETIDY to make a room or building tidy 整理，收拾
Pick up your room before you go to bed.
收拾一下房間再上床。
d) get STH 得到某物 pick something ↔ up informal
i. GETto get or win something 獲得；赢得
He’s already picked up three major prizes this year.
今年他已經拿了三項大獎。
ii. BUYto buy something or get it from a shop etc 買到
I picked up an evening paper on the way home.
我在回家的路上買了一份晚報。
For more details, pick up a leaflet in your local post office.
欲知更多詳情，請到當地郵局取閱宣傳單。
iii. to get an illness 染上〔疾病〕
I picked up a virus while I was in America.
我在美國的時候感染了病毒。
e) collect 領取 pick something ↔ upGET to collect something from a place 取〔某物〕
I’ll pick my things up later.
我過一會兒來取我的東西。
She just dropped by to pick up her mail.
她只是順便過來取她的郵件。
f) let SB into a vehicle 讓某人進入車輛 pick somebody ↔ upGET to let someone get into your car, boat etc and take them somewhere 搭載，接載
I’ll pick you up at the station.
我會到車站接你。
The survivors were picked up by fishing boats from nearby villages.
幸存者被附近村莊的漁船救了起來。
g) learn 學會 pick something ↔ upLEARN to learn something by watching or listening to other people 〔通過觀察或聆聽而〕學會
I picked up a few words of Greek when I was there last year.
去年在希臘的時候我學會了一些希臘語單詞。
Mary watched the other dancers to see if she could pick up any tips.
瑪麗觀察其他跳舞的人，看能否學到什麽竅門。
h) notice 注意 pick something ↔ upSMELLHEAR to notice something that is not easy to notice, such as a slight smell or a sign of something 注意到〔不容易注意的事情〕
I picked up a faint smell of coffee.
我聞到淡淡的咖啡味。
The dogs picked up the scent and raced off.
那些狗聞到了氣味，一下子跑開了。
We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river.
我們在河對岸又發現了他們的足迹。
i) radio/signals 無線電/信號HEAR pick something ↔ up if a machine picks up a sound, movement, or signal, it is able to notice it or receive it 接收
The sensors pick up faint vibrations in the earth.
傳感器探測到地球内部微弱的顫動。
I managed to pick up an American news broadcast.
我設法收聽到一檔美國的新聞廣播節目。
j) sex 性 pick somebody ↔ upMEET to become friendly with someone you have just met because you want to have sex with them 勾搭上
young women sitting around in bars waiting to be picked up
閒坐在酒吧等人來搭讪的年輕女子
k) start again 重新開始
i. CONTINUE/START AGAINif you pick up where you stopped or were interrupted, you start again from that point 〔從談話、會議停頓的地方〕繼續
We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off.
我們上午會再次碰面，到時候接着繼續。
ii. IDEA pick something ↔ up if you pick up an idea that has been mentioned, you return to it and develop it further 回過頭來進一步闡述〔某觀點〕
I’d like to pick up what you said earlier.
我想再談談先前你說過的問題。
This same theme is picked up in his later works.
相同的主題又出現在他後來的作品中。
l) improve 改進,提高
i. IMPROVEif a situation picks up, it improves 〔情況〕改進，提高，好轉
Her social life was picking up at last.
她的社交生活終於有了起色。
The economy is finally beginning to pick up again.
經濟終於開始有所好轉。
We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now.
我們度過了一段困難時期，不過目前情況又開始好轉了。
ii. pick somebody upHEALTHY if a medicine or drink picks you up, it makes you feel better 〔藥物或飲料〕使某人感覺好些，使振作精神 → pick-me-up
m) road 道路 pick something ↔ up if you pick up a road, you go onto it and start driving along it 沿某條路行進
We take the A14 to Birmingham and then pick up the M5.
我們沿14號幹線公路到伯明翰，然後上5號高速公路。
n) train/bus 火車/公共汽車 pick something ↔ up if you pick up a train, bus etc, you get onto it and travel on it 乘坐
o) pick up speed/steamFAST/QUICK to go faster 加快速度
The train was gradually picking up speed.
火車正在逐漸加速。
p) pick up the bill/tab (for something) informalPAY FOR to pay for something （爲某事物）付款
Why should the taxpayer pick up the tab for mistakes made by a private company?
爲什麽納稅人要爲一家私人公司的過錯所造成的損失買單呢？
q) wind 風FAST/QUICK if the wind picks up, it increases or grows stronger 變大，變強
r) colour 顔色 pick something ↔ upSUIT/LOOK GOOD TOGETHER if one thing picks up a colour in something else, it has an amount of the same colour in it so that the two things look nice together 含有…的顔色〔因而搭配得好〕
I like the way the curtains pick up the red in the rug.
窗簾帶點地毯中的紅色，我喜歡這種搭配。
s) criminal 罪犯 pick somebody ↔ upCATCH if the police pick someone up, they take them somewhere to answer questions or to be locked up 逮捕某人，拘捕某人
He was picked up by police as he was trying to leave the country.
他企圖出境時被警察拘捕。
t) pick up the pieces (of something)RECOVER/GET BETTER to try to make your life normal again after something very bad has happened to you （使某事物）重整旗鼓，恢複正常
Thousands of victims of the earthquake are now faced with the task of picking up the pieces of their lives.
數以千計的地震災民現在面臨着重建生活的重擔。
u) pick up the threads (of something)CONTINUE/START AGAIN if you pick up the threads of something that you were doing, you try to return to it and start doing it again after it stopped or was changed 恢複，重新開始（某事物）
Now that the war was over they could pick up the threads of their lives again.
戰爭已經結束，他們可以重新開始生活了。
v) pick your feet up spoken used to tell someone to walk properly or more quickly 好好走路；快點走
Examples from the Corpus
pick up• Do you want me to come back and pick you guys up?• He's hoping to pick up a few bargains at the sales.• I picked up a few words of Turkish when I was in Istanbul.• I picked up a stomach bug on holiday in Turkey.• Hi, I've come to pick up a suit I left on Tuesday.• I told Virginia I'd pick her up about 8:00.• I feel like I spend all my time picking up after the kids.• After the phone had rung twice, Joyce picked it up and said hello.• Brendan has a cold. He must have picked it up at school.• Financial commentators think we'll see the economy starting to pick up early next year.• Can you pick some milk up from the shop on your way home?• Come on Bob, pick up! I know you're there.• At present the hotel is almost empty, but I'm sure things will start to pick up in the spring.• I arranged to pick up Mr Clarke and take him to his accommodation.• "Where's Diana?" "She just left to pick up the kids from school."• Could you pick up the newspapers and magazines for me?• I'll pick up the tickets on my way home from work.• A lifeboat picked them up two miles from the coast.• Help me pick these things up. We have company coming.• It's just a little thing I picked up when I was in Kathmandu.
pick yourself up• A team in such a position is likely to find it hard to pick itself up.• Shaken and deafened, I picked myself up.• I crashed to the ground, picked myself up, and began staggering around the car to the other side.• Carol picked herself up and dusted herself off.• He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor.• Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again.• Although he picked himself up and walked away, he knew something was wrong.• I fell, picked myself up, lurched forward another yard or two, then fell again.• However, Grimm was already picking himself up, swearing, dusting himself off, retrieving his cap.
things are picking up• Well, things are picking up again.
pick up speed/steam• Of course, good melody will sound fine at any tempo, so play slowly and gradually pick up speed.• The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.• The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.• As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m.• The coach picked up speed as it rattled and jolted down to Forty-second Street.• Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.• If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
pick up the bill/tab (for something)• After its shareholder equity turned negative last year, parent Dasa started picking up the bills.• But remember - raid your savings now and Santa won't pick up the bill.• Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.• When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.• In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.• I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.• The company's picking up the bill for my trip to Hawaii.• There is a growing, often unstated, anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services.• Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten, twenty or thirty years.
pick up the pieces (of something)• It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.• This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces.• Whimper like a whipped puppy, Jay, have a drink and pick up the pieces.• The town is beginning to pick up the pieces after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.• As proved by history, women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war.• Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.• I picked up the pieces myself.• In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.• In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives.
pick up the threads (of something)• She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.• The good thing is that he's trying to pick up the threads of his life again.• Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.
pick your feet up• Ronnie, stop shuffling and pick your feet up.
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