Rae's coffee cup clattered against the saucer as she picked it up.

蕾把咖啡杯拿起来的时候杯子碰响了茶碟。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing.

那件家具破破烂烂；显然他没花什么钱就捡来了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I picked up the phone book and glanced through it.

我拿起电话簿，浏览了一下。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The men in it said they had picked up a man and a baby.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

The Greeks are in touch with them again and they borrow styles, copy styles, maybe in the early day they used some of the craftsmen from out there or maybe their own craftsmen picked it up.

希腊人又一次与他们接触了,借鉴并复制了他们的风格,也许在早期他们雇佣一些那些地方的工匠,或者让他们自己的工匠学习

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Let me read you a quick excerpt by Abraham Maslow who talks about this approach, "If one took a course or picked up a book on the psychology of learning, most of it, in my opinion, would be beside the point - that is, beside the 'humanistic' point.

我来给你们读一小段Abraham，Maslow的话，“如果有人上了一门关于心理学学习的课，或者看了一本这方面的书，大部分内容，在我看来，是与重点无关的-,也就是，与人性无关。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Adding Bluetooth chips to the patch would enable an item of clothing to literally tell you to wear it if the weather report it picked up from the Internet warranted it.

CNN: Future dress code: Very smart

Hewlett Packard is reeling from the loss of a couple of the key developer relations people it picked up with the acquisition of Palm, but will soon be back with more.

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But EarthLink itself is looking to build upon the 32, 000 mobile subscribers and software assets it picked up from the Omnisky purchase.

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