〈非正〉收拾残局; 重整旗鼓 save sth after failure; do one's best to find or make some result
pick sb/sth ⇔ uppick up your feet there, men!
诸位,把脚抬起来!
She picked up the ashtray and put it on the table.
她拾起烟灰缸并把它放到桌子上。
Facer dropped his pen and bent to pick it up, causing a sharp pain in his back.
费塞掉了钢笔,在弯腰拣笔时,感到背上一阵剧痛。
On hearing the news through the telephone she picked up her kit and dashed out of the door.
从电话里听到这个消息后她拿起药箱冲出门去。
I picked up your bag by mistake.
我拿错了你的手提包。
The telephone rang just as I was about to pick up the receiver.
我刚要去拿听筒,电话就响了。
I would have picked it up if I had noticed it.
我如果看见的话,我早就把它捡起来了。
pick sb/sth ⇔ upWhile driving to Edinburgh he picked up two students who were hitching a lift.
他在驾车去爱丁堡的途中,让两个要求搭车的学生上了车。
The bus stopped several times to pick up passengers.
那辆公共汽车沿途停了好几次,让乘客上车。
I'll pick you up at your place at eight o'clock.
我8点钟在你住的地方接你上车。
Please wait at the school gate.John will pick you up there.
请在校门口等候,约翰要来找你一块走的。
It's not safe to travel by standing at the roadside hoping to be picked up by passing motorists.
站在路边等着搭便车,这样旅行并不安全。
The boy is picked up in a lifeboat.
小男孩被救上了救生艇。
pick upHis spirits picked up.
他的精神振作起来了。
pick oneself upWhen the child fell off her bicycle, she picked herself up, got back on and rode away .
那个女孩子从自行车上摔下来后自己爬了起来,又上车赶路了。
pick yourself up and brush yourself down.
自己爬起来,把衣服掸干净。
After the failure of his business, he had to pick himself up and start all over again.
他的生意失败后,他不得不振作起来,一切重新开始。
pick upThe speed of the train began to pick up.
火车开始加速。
The car began to pick up the moment the vehicle got onto the motorway.
一开上高速公路,车子的速度就加快了。
The engine coughed for a few minutes, then picked up, and soon we were on our way.
发动机突突地响了几分钟而后加速,很快我们就上路了。
Let's see how fast you can pick up from a standing start.
看看你站着起跑后能加速多快。
pick sth ⇔ upSoon after the train left the station, it began to pick up speed.
火车出站后不久就逐渐加快速度。
The car picks up speed with just a touch of the accelerator.
这辆车只要你一踩油门就会加速。
The teacher told her singing class to pick up the tempo; the class did well after her.
老师叫全班同学加快节拍唱歌,大家跟着她唱得很好。
pick upChildren, it's time to pick up and have supper.
孩子们,该收拾东西吃晚饭了。
I refuse to pick up after children who are old enough to keep their own things in order.
我不愿替那些能料理自己东西的大孩子们收拾房间。
pick sth ⇔ up“What are you doing?”“I'm picking up my room.”
“你在做什么呢?”“我在收拾屋子。”pick up your room before you go out, please.请在离开之前整理好房间。
Please pick up all your toys when you've finished playing.
你玩过后请把玩具都收拾好。
Let's pick up everything on the floor and get the room tidy before we go out.
我们出去之前,先把地板上的东西收拾干净,把房间搞整齐。
It's time to pick up tools and go home.
到收拾工具回家的时候了。
The room must be picked up before the guests arrive.
这个房间在客人到达之前必须收拾出来。
pick upThe peasants were picking up in the field.
农民们在田里翻地。
pick sth ⇔ upThe man was picking up the ground very hard.
那个人正在使劲地挖地。
The frozen ground will have to be picked up by hand before machine digging can begin.
这冻土必须挖过后才能用掘土机掘土。
pick sth ⇔ upHe picked up Japanese while living in Japan.
他在日本生活的时候学会了日语。
I don't know where my children have picked up those rude words!
我不知道我的孩子们从哪儿学来了这些粗话。
Haas has never had a French teacher; he picked up the language by himself.
哈斯从未请过法文教师,他的法语是自学的。
Jacelin served no formal apprenticeship in car mechanics; he just picked it up at the garage where he works.
杰斯林没有正式学过汽车机械修理,他只是在自己的汽车修理厂学的。
It is said that the essentials of Esperanto can be picked up in a few lessons.
据说上几次课就能掌握世界语的基本要领。
pick sth ⇔ upWhere did you pick up that book?I've been trying to get it for weeks!
你在哪儿弄到这本书?好几个星期来,我一直想买这本书。
Where did you pick up that lovely vase?
你是在哪里弄到那个漂亮的花瓶的?
My friend knows where he can pick up a good used car for you at a very reasonable price.
我的朋友知道在哪儿能给你弄辆还不错的旧车,而且价钱还相当公道。
If Mother picks up a temporary job, they'll stop our welfare money.
如果妈妈找到临时工作,他们就会停发福利金。
You can always pick up new ideas if you keep your eyes open.
你要是留意的话,总能接收到新的思想观点的。
She tried to pick up a humble living by selling baskets that she had made by hand.
她设法卖些自己编织的篮子挣钱糊口。
Car factory workers can pick up good wages, especially with overtime.
汽车厂的工人们能挣很多钱,特别是加班的时候。
Besides his regular wages, the chauffeur picks up money in tips.
那位汽车司机除领取正常工资外,还可以收点小费。
My radio can pick up London very clearly.
我的收音机能清楚地收到伦敦的广播。
I picked up Fujian on the radio last night.
我昨晚收听到福建广播电台。
They can pick up a lot of stations on this radio set.
他们能用这台收音机收到许多电台的广播。
This powerful radio can pick up stations from halfway round the world.
这台大功率的无线电能接收到半个地球的电台发出的电波。
The searchers at last picked up a signal from the crashed plane.
搜索者终于收到了一个那架失事飞机发出的信号。
These new electric buses pick up their power from overhead wires.
这些新电车从车顶上方的电线接受供电。
John suggested to his companions that a few shillings might be picked up by running errands for the neighbours.
约翰向伙伴们建议,帮邻居们跑跑腿也许还能挣些钱。
An intruding enemy plane was picked up by our radar installations.
我方雷达发现了一架入侵敌机。
pick sth ⇔ upHe must have picked up a cold; he's begun to sniffle.
他鼻子有点不通,一定是感冒了。
He has picked up some bad habits at that club.
他在那个俱乐部里染上了一些坏习惯。
I don't want to pick up any bad habits from those people.
我不想从那些人那里染上任何坏习惯。
pick sb/sth ⇔ upThe police picked the man up for burglary.
警察以盗窃罪逮捕了那个人。
He was implicated in a murder, and sooner or later they would pick him up.
他和一宗凶杀案有牵连,迟早他们会逮捕他的。
The police picked the burglar up as he was leaving the house.
窃贼正要离开那幢房子的时候,警察捉住了他。
They picked Eby up from a battlefield and sold him as a slave.
他们把伊比从战场上捉住当作奴隶卖了。
His ears are so sensitive that they can pick up very faint sounds from a long way away .
他的耳朵非常灵敏,能听见远处的微弱的声音。
The trained dogs soon picked up the smell of the creature that they were hunting.
经过训练的狗很快就能嗅出被追捕的动物的气味。
He is picked up on a charge of killing a man.
他因被指控杀人而被逮捕。
The fleeing culprit was picked up within twenty-four hours.
那名逃犯在24小时之内就被抓获了。
The escaped prisoners were picked up by the police only a short distance from the prison.
那些逃犯就在离监狱不远的地方被警方捕获。
pick upIt looks as if the weather may pick up soon.
看起来天气很快就会好起来。
When is the weather going to pick up?It's been bad for weeks.
天气什么时候转好?几周来一直很糟糕。
Business is at last beginning to pick up.
生意终于开始好转了。
The hotel business always picks up in summer.
夏季,旅馆的生意一向很好。
Trade has been picking up again since the winter.
自冬季以来,生意逐渐兴隆起来。
He seemed to pick up quickly after his fever went down.
他发烧好了以后身体似乎在很快好转。
He has picked up slowly since he came out of hospital.
他自出院以来,身体恢复得很慢。
pick sb/sth ⇔ upThe writer's personal appearance picked up the sales of the book considerably.
那位作家亲自到场,使那本书的销售量大增。
This medicine will help to pick up your health.
这种药物能帮助你恢复健康。
pick upThe engine sputtered and seemed about to cut out; then it picked up again.
发动机劈劈啪啪响了几声,像是要停下来似的,接着又转了起来。
We'll pick up where we finished yesterday.
我们从昨天停止的地方继续进行。
Let's pick up where we left off before our coffee break.
咱们从喝咖啡休息之前停下的地方重新开始。
pick sth ⇔ upHe picked up the story where he had left it the day before.
他接着往下讲前天没有讲完的故事。
Because I had not studied for some years, it was difficult trying to pick up the threads again.
我几年不摸书本了,重新再拾起书本非常困难。
We lost the animal's track for some time, but picked it up further ahead.
有好一会儿,我们失却了野兽的足迹,不过再往前又找到了。
It's difficult to pick up the thread of a conversation when it has been interrupted.
谈话一被打断就很难重新接上话题。
They met after five years, and picked up their friendship as if there had been no interruption.
分别了5年之后他们又重逢了,继续发展他们之间的友谊,就像他们从未分离过。
pick upThis sort of match picks up easily.
这种火柴容易点燃。
pick sb ⇔ upI picked up this girl on the train and I'm going to meet her again tonight.
我在火车上认识了这个姑娘,今晚我再去与她见面。
They happened to pick up each other in a park yesterday.
他们昨天在一个公园里偶然认识。
I think she picked him up at a dance.
我想她是在一次舞会上搭上他的。
Some men go to dances just to see if they can pick up a girl for the night.
一些男人去跳舞就是想看看能不能找个姑娘共度良宵。
Mother told Cage not to walk home by herself from the party because some strangers might try to pick her up.
母亲要凯奇晚会后不要单独回家,因为可能会有陌生人想跟她搭讪。
The policeman took the woman to the police station for picking up men outside the hotel.
警察把那个在旅馆外面拉男人的女人带到警察局去。
pick up with sbWhere did you pick up with that queer fellow?
你在哪里结识那个怪家伙的?
She's picked up with some peculiar people.
她勾搭上一些不三不四的人。
pick sb/sth ⇔ upWhile reading this book,I have picked up twenty-five printing mistakes.
阅读这本书时,我纠正了25个印刷错误。
I'm always having to pick up the children for rude behaviour.
我不得不一再纠正孩子们的无礼举动。
pick up the billThey offered to pick up the bill for all the expenses of the trip.
他们表示愿意支付全部旅行的费用。
It is the custom for the new wife's father to pick up the bill for the wedding.
依照风俗,由新娘的父亲筹措婚礼的费用。
The government should pick up the bill for the damaged ship.
政府应该为那艘受损船只承担付款的责任。
pick up the gauntletHe's said you can't possibly finish in time. Are you going to pick up the gauntlet?
他说你未必能按时完成,你打算接受他的挑战吗?
pick up the piecesIf you fail now, who will pick up the pieces?
你现在要是失败了,谁来收拾残局?
We must pick up the pieces of our political defeat, and start working towards the next election.
我们在政治上失败后必须重整旗鼓,开始为下次的竞选进行工作。
Their lives were shattered by the tragedy and they are still trying to pick up the pieces.
他们的生活被这场悲剧摧垮了,但他们仍尽力重新整顿。