She failed to pick up on the humour in his remark.

她没有领悟他话中的幽默。

《牛津词典》

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Remember that you will need to leave enough capacity to pick up the workload of a failed cluster member.

记住，您需要留出足够的容量来接管失败集群成员的工作负载。

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He tried to pick one up,but failed.

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Bolton's early optimism had been dented within 10 minutes as they failed to pick up the unmarked Villa captain.

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The other company had failed to pick up a pet on time, and the owner was irate.

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Steve Martin lies in 20th place in the championship, while team-mate Garry McCoy failed to pick up a point.

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