Traduction et définition
to pick up: ramasser, décrocher (le téléphone)
To pick up, qui, littéralement, signifie "ramasser", a différents emplois courants :
Pick up the telephone! Réponds! Décroche le téléphone!
Pick up your clothes from the floor. Ramasse tes vêtements (qui sont par terre)
Philip picked up three girls at the bar last night. Philip a dragué trois filles au bar hier soir. (familier)
He picked up the check. Il a payé l'addition.
to pick (someone) up (from the airport): aller chercher (qq'un) à (l'aéroport)
Can you pick the kids up from school? Peux-tu aller chercher les enfants à l'école?
to pick up (something at the store): acheter (qq ch dans un magasin)
to pick (someone) up (in a bar): draguer, sortir avec (quelqu'un dans un bar)
Exemples
- "She's so awful that just the sight of her makes people scream. When I pick her up, people run out of the room. In my hands, this instrument can do more damage than a bazooka!"
- "Subject: Insane Person in hospital - Please pick up!"
- "I'm sure you'll find the job as gratifying as I found picking up your soiled tissues and discarded chocolate wrappers for the past decade as your special assistant."
- "Besides, you said you would never pick up a tambourine again."
- "Frank (Dispatcher) : "Pick-me-up" cabs, this is Frank."
- "If you pick up the paperclips off the floor, I'll help you sort these letters back into two piles."
- "I'm gonna pick you up, turn you on, keep you clean..."
- "(Philip ends the call and picks up the phone again)"
- "learn about the culture in this peaceful land
and better pick up women if the" - "I need you this afternoon to run some errands, pick up my dry cleaning, and I have this weird rash that I need you to look at."
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