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pluck

/pluhk/US // plʌk //UK // (plʌk) //

采摘,拔掉,摘取,拔取

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
    • : to give a pull at; grasp: to pluck someone's sleeve.
    • : to pull with sudden force or with a jerk.
    • : to pull or move by force.
    • : to remove the feathers, hair, etc., from by pulling: to pluck a chicken.
    • : Slang. to rob, plunder, or fleece.
    • : to sound by pulling at them with the fingers or a plectrum.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to pull or tug sharply.
    • : to snatch.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : act of plucking; a tug.
    • : the heart, liver, and lungs, especially of an animal used for food.
    • : courage or resolution in the face of difficulties.
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    • : pluck up, to eradicate; uproot.to summon up one's courage; rouse one's spirits: He always plucked up at the approach of danger. She was a stranger in the town, but, plucking up her courage, she soon made friends.

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Examples

  • Bergdahl, who appeared in a previous video pleading for the United States to rescue him, seems to have demonstrated no such pluck.

  • Pluck a pebble from a mountain and pretend the mountain is gone.

  • Maintaining tight eye contact, the butlers pluck out audience members for a gripping, melancholic dance.

  • The human urge to pluck a string and make music goes back many millennia.

  • The easiest thing would be to pluck another exiled oligarch out of the sin bin.

  • It is more advantageous to pluck the leaves when they are dry than when they are moist.

  • You've done a big thing to-day, and if you hadn't had more pluck and ginger than common, it's a cinch you'd have lost out.

  • You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

  • And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.

  • For a pen she would catch a goose, pluck a quill, and ask Billy to cut it.