1、pick up

拿起；提起；拾起；撿起

He picked his cap up from the floor and stuck it back on his head.

他從地板上拾起帽子，重新戴在頭上。

Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled with it.

里德利拿起一支鉛筆，不停地在手里擺弄著。

（通常指開車）接載，取走

We drove to the airport the next morning to pick up Susan.

我們第二天早晨開車去機場接蘇姍。

She went over to her parents' house to pick up some clean clothes.

她去了趟父母家取些干凈衣服。

（不費力地）獲得，學會

Where did you pick up your English?

你在哪兒學的英語？

Young people are picking up ideas about good drugs and bad drugs.

年輕人正在形成毒品有好壞之分的觀念。

2、wipe out

摧毀;毀滅;使滅絕

The spill could wipe out the Gulf's turtle population.

這次原油泄漏可能會使波斯灣的海龜滅絕。

The man is a fanatic who is determined to wipe out any opposition to the way he conducts himself.

這人是個狂熱分子，決意掃除任何反對其行事作風的聲音。