每天三分钟学英语 第223期:Pick up a girl不是"捡个女孩"的意思哦

 　　Pick up的常用表达：

　　1、买东西

　　Hector's picking up lunch for everyone. Make sure you tell him what you want.

　　Hector在给大家买午餐。记得要告诉他你们想要的东西。

　　Shoot! I forgot the salad dressing¹. I'll need to go back and pick up a bottle.

　　哎呀！我忘记买沙拉调料了。我得回去买一瓶。

　　*句中的 shoot 就是脏话 shit 的文明版说法。

　　*salad dressing = 沙拉调料

　　2、接电话

　　Are you going to pick up the phone? It's ringing.

　　你要去接电话吗？电话响了。

　　Carey won't pick up or return my texts. I don't know what she's doing.

　　Carey不会接我电话，也不会回复我信息。我不知道她现在在做什么。

　　3、接某人

　　I'm on my way to the airport. I got to pick up Jeremy. He's back from Scotland² today.

　　我正在去机场的路上。我得去接Jeremy。他今天从苏格兰回来。

　　Thanks, but I already have a ride. My friend's picking me up. She should be here soon.

　　谢谢，不过已经有人来接我了。我朋友正开车过来接我。她应该很快就到了。

　　4、继续

　　Shall we pick up where we left off last time?

　　我们从上次结束的地方继续怎么样？

　　*where we left off 上次结束的地方

　　We ran out of time today so the professor will pick up the lecture on Friday.

　　今天我们时间不够了，所以教授会在周五继续讲今天的课程。

　　5、搭讪，跟陌生异性调情

　　Come on, I need you to help me distract³ her friend while I try to pick her up.

　　快来，我需要你帮我引开她朋友，我去跟她搭讪。

　　He picked up a girl from a bar.

　　他在一个酒吧里搭上了一个女孩。

1 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。

2 Scotland   

n.苏格兰

参考例句：

• He has been hiking round Scotland for a month.他围着苏格兰徒步旅行了一个月。
• Scotland is to the north of England.苏格兰在英格兰之北。

3 distract   

vt.分散注意力，转移注意力，使分心

参考例句：

• Don't distract my attention.不要分散我的注意力。
• It was all a ploy to distract attention from his real aims.那纯粹是障眼法,用以分散人们对他真正意图的注意力。