pluck

[plʌk]

v.摘, 猛拉, 拔, 拨弹（乐器）
n.猛拉, 勇气, 动物内脏

vt.

1. 采, 摘, 拔[(+from/out/off)][O1]

He plucked her a rose.

他摘了一朵玫瑰花给她。

2. 拔……的毛

Has the goose been plucked?

鹅的毛拔掉了没有?

3. 扯, 拉

He plucked the letter from her hands.

他从她手里把信抓了过来。

4. 【音】拨; 弹

vi.

拉, 拽; 拔, 扯[(+at)]

The brambles plucked at her skirt.

荆棘钩扯着她的裙子。

She plucked at the loose threads of her coat.

她扯去上衣上松了的线。

n.

1. (一)拉; (一)拨; (一)扯[C][S1]

With a few plucks at the strings of his banjo, everybody was singing along.

他拨了拨班卓琴的琴弦, 每个人就都跟着唱了起了。

2. (动物的)内脏[the S]

3. 勇气, 意志[U]

He showed pluck in fighting a boy much bigger than himself.

他敢于跟一个比他大得多的孩子搏斗, 足以表现出他的勇气。

词形变化

名词: plucker | 动词过去式: plucked | 动词过去分词: plucked | 动词现在分词: plucking | 动词第三人称单数: plucks |

词义辨析

同义:

vt.用力拉

pull  pick  jerk  tug  yank  

同义参见:

spunk  confidence  backbone  extract  mettle  vigor  grit  

英英释义

名词 pluck:

the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury

同义词：gutsiness, pluckiness

the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord

动词 pluck:

pull or pull out sharply

同义词：tweak, pull off, pick off

sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

同义词：hustle, roll

rip off; ask an unreasonable price

同义词：overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, rob, hook

pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

同义词：plunk, pick

strip of feathers

同义词：pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume

look for and gather

同义词：pick, cull

短语词组

pluck up

1. 鼓起; 振作

Sheila plucked up her courage to ask for a pay rise.

希拉鼓足了勇气要求加薪。

Pluck up your spirits!

振作精神!

补充

pluckpluck英:[plʌk] 美:[plʌk]n.1.勇气, 精神He is full of pluck.他很有勇气。vt.1.采; 摘; 拔2.弹, 拔vi.1.拉, 拽He plucked at her sleeve to try and get her attention.他不停地拉她的袖子试图引起她的注意。

例句

1. He plucked a stalk of dried fennel.他掐下一支干茴香。 2. I plucked a lemon from the tree.我从树上摘了一个柠檬。 3. He plucked the baby out of my arms and ran off down the street.他从我怀中抢过小宝宝, 沿着大街跑了。 4. They were plucked from the icy river.他们被人从冰冷的河里拽了上来。 5. The children were plucked to safety as the building burned around them.四周的建筑物着火燃烧时, 孩子们被带到了安全地带。 6. She plucked his sleeve.她拽着他的袖子。 7. He plucked the strings slowly.他慢慢地拨动着琴弦。 8. Nell was plucking a harp.内尔在弹竖琴。 9. Sally spent hours getting ready, plucking her eyebrows and painting her nails.萨莉花了几个小时作准备, 又拔眉毛又涂指甲的。 10. It turns out that there is no evidence for the extent of health tourism—the 200 million figure seems to have been plucked out of the air.没有证据能够说明养生旅游发展到了什么程度——2亿这个数字似乎是信口开河。 11. I slept in my car for two more days until I plucked up the courage to go home.我在车里又睡了两天才鼓起勇气回家。 12. I eventually plucked up enough courage to ask her for a date.我最终还是鼓足了勇气提出和她约会。 13. Little companies are known for their pluck and perseverance, even in the face of a recession.小公司以勇气和坚定著称, 即使是在经济萧条时期。 14. You had to admire the fighters' pluck in resisting their enemy.你不得不钦佩战士们抵抗敌人的勇气。 15. She felt a pluck at her sleeve.她觉得袖子被拽了一下。 16. Did you pluck your eyebrows?你拔眉毛吗? 17. He plucked a sheet of paper from his notebook.他从笔记本上撕下一张纸。 18. Do you remember when you bought a chicken and had to pluck it yourself?你记得什么时候你自己买只鸡，自己退毛的? 19. She often plucks the strings of a guitar at night.她常在深更半夜弹吉他。 20. She was plucked from the jaws of death by Tarzan.泰山把她从死亡边缘救了出来。 21. The chapel was plucked down by the inhabitants of the village.教堂被村里的居民给拆了。 22. The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.会议解除他牧师职位调去领导国外布道委员会。 23. We expected him to be plucked on his tripos.我们预料他在剑桥大学荣誉学位考试中不及格。 24. He plucked at his trouser-knees and sat down.他拉了拉裤膝，坐了下来。 25. plucking at the wires在弦线上弹奏 26. she plucked a blade of grass.她摘了一叶草。 27. he plucked a tape from the shelf.他从架上取了一盘磁带。 28. she plucked his sleeve.她扯了一下他的衣袖。 29. [no obj.]brambles plucked at her jeans.荆棘撕扯着她的牛仔裤。 30. the baby was plucked from a grim orphanage.那个婴儿被从可怕的孤儿院里救了出来。 31. He plucked the letter from my hands.他从我手上抢走这封信。 32. My sister plucked a white hair from my head.妹妹从我头上拔掉了一根白发。 33. The hunter plucked the bird's feathers.猎人拔掉了那只鸟的羽毛。 34. plucking petals off/from a flower摘掉花瓣 35. pluck [=pick] a lemon from the tree从树上摘下一个柠檬 36. They plucked a chicken.他们拔掉了鸡毛。 37. She plucks her eyebrows. [=she regularly removes some of the hairs in her eyebrows to make her eyebrows have a particular shape]她经常修眉。 38. Firefighters plucked the child from the top floor of the burning building.消防员从着火的楼房顶层抢救出那个孩子。 39. He'd been plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national spotlight.原本默默无闻的他一下子变成了全国关注的对象。 40. a cat that was plucked off the city's streets last winter去年冬天从城市街道上被人抱走的一只猫 41. We plucked [=chose] passages at random from the book and read them aloud.我们从这本书里随便挑出几段文字并大声朗读。 42. He plucked a stone out of the river.他从河里拣出一块石头。 43. pluck a guitar string拨动吉他弦 44. pluck on a guitar string拨动吉他弦 45. She was softly plucking a banjo.她在轻弹班卓琴。 46. plucking on/at a banjo弹奏班卓琴 47. He nervously plucked at the blanket.他紧张得不停地扯毯子。 48. He finally plucked up the courage to ask her out on a date.他终于鼓起勇气约她出去。 49. It takes pluck to do what she did.她这么做需要勇气。 50. She showed pluck in getting up on stage.她勇敢地站在了舞台上。