Pick Up Pickup Countable ˈpɪkʌp N Count 可数名词 Truck N
"Pickup" can refer to a small truck, an improvement in trade or the economy, collecting someone or something, or a casual sexual encounter. It can also describe informal or spontaneous activities.
[N-COUNT 可数名词]皮卡;轻型货车 A pick-up or a pick-up truck is a small truck with low sides that can be easily loaded and unloaded.
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[N-SING 单数名词](贸易或经济的)好转,改善 A pick-up in trade or in a country's economy is an improvement in it.
[usu N in n]
...a pick-up in the housing market...
房地产市场的回暖
The economy remains deep in recession with few signs of a pick-up.
经济仍深陷衰退之中,几乎没有好转的迹象。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]接人;取走物品;提货 A pick-up takes place when someone picks up a person or thing that is waiting to be collected.
[usu N n]
The company had pick-up points in most cities...
这家公司在大部分城市都有提货点。
Trains will operate from Waterloo with a pick-up stop at Ashford.
火车从滑铁卢站出发,途中会在阿什福德站停靠上人。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](以发生性关系为目的的)搭识,搭讪 When a pick-up takes place, someone talks to a person in a friendly way in the hope of having a casual sexual relationship with them.
[INFORMAL 非正式]
They had come to the world's most famous pick-up joint.
他们已来到了世界上最著名的调情场所。
Oxford
pick·up/ˈpɪkʌp; NAmEˈpɪkʌp/
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noun _trucks_comp.jpg _pickup.jpg 1(alsoˈpickup truck)[countable ]a vehicle with low sides and no roof at the back used, for example, by farmers 轻型货车;敞篷小货车;皮卡货车2[countable ]a person sb meets for the first time, for example in a bar, with whom they start a sexual relationship 偶然结识的调情者◆casual pickups游戏鸳鸯3[countable ]pickup(in sth) an improvement 改进;好转;改善◆a pickup in the housing market房市景气的好转4[uncountable , countable ]an occasion when sb/sth is collected 接人;收取物品;提货◆Goods are delivered not later than noon on the day after pickup.货物递送不迟于收件后的第二天中午。5[countable ]the part of a record player or musical instrument that changes electrical signals into sound, or sound into electrical signals (唱机的)唱头,磁头6[uncountable ]( NAmE) a vehicle's ability to accelerate(= increase in speed) (车辆的)加速能力adjective[only before noun ]( NAmE) (of a sports game 体育比赛)often not planned in advance and that anyone who wants to can join in 临时拼凑的;临时组织的◆A group of kids started a pickup game of basketball on the street outside.一群孩子在外面开始了即兴街头篮球赛。pick·up/ˈpɪkʌp; NAmEˈpɪkʌp/