pickup

英 ['pɪkʌp] 美 ['pɪkʌp]

解释

※ 提供单词"pickup"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

pickup 轻型货车，小皮卡车

比喻用法。

pickup (n.): also pick-up, "that which is picked up," 1848; see pick up (v.). As "act of picking up" from 1882. Meaning "capacity for acceleration" is from 1909; that of "recovery" is from 1916. In reference to a game between informal teams chosen on the spot, from 1905 (as an adjective in this sense by 1936).

Meaning "small truck used for light loads," 1937, is shortened from pickup truck (pickup body is attested from 1928). The notion probably being of a vehicle for use to "pick up" (feed, lumber, etc.) and deliver it where it was needed.

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2. Frank Mariano negotiates the desert terrain in his battered pickup.: 弗兰克·马里亚诺驾驶他那辆破烂不堪的皮卡车成功穿越了沙漠地带。