pluck
pluck 英 [plʌk] 美 [plʌk]
n. 勇气 vi. 拉，拽，拔，摘；弹拨
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- To pluck is to pick or pull a single item out of many, like a flower or a hair. As a noun, pluck is energy or enthusiasm, even when things are looking grim.
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- n. 勇气
- vi. 拉，拽，拔，摘；弹拨
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1. She plucked out a grey hair.
她拔掉了一根灰白头发。
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2. to pluck the strings of a violin
弹拨小提琴的弦
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3. He took the guitar and plucked at the strings.
他拿起吉他拨动起琴弦来。
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4. Police plucked a drowning girl from the river yesterday.
昨天警方从河里救起了一名溺水少女。
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5. Survivors of the wreck were plucked to safetyby a helicopter.
沉船的幸存者被直升机营救脱险。
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6. He plucked the wallet from the man's grasp.
他抢走了那个男人紧抓着的钱包。
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7. I plucked an orange from the tree.
我从树上摘了一个橙子。
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8. It takes a lot of pluck to do what she did.
她这么做需要很大的胆量。
- pluck (n.) c. 1400, "act of plucking," from pluck (v.). Meaning "courage, boldness" (1785), originally in pugilism slang, is a figurative use from earlier meaning "heart, viscera" (1610s) as that which is "plucked" from slaughtered livestock. Perhaps influenced by figurative use of the verb in pluck up (one's courage, etc.), attested from c. 1300.
- pluck (v.) late Old English ploccian, pluccian "pull off, cull," from West Germanic *plokken (source also of Middle Low German plucken, Middle Dutch plocken, Dutch plukken, Flemish plokken, German pflücken), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *piluccare (source of Old French peluchier, late 12c.; Italian piluccare), a frequentative, ultimately from Latin pilare "pull out hair," from pilus "hair" (see pile (n.3)). But despite the similarities, OED finds difficulties with this and cites gaps in historical evidence. Related: Plucked; plucking.
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