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。

逮捕；拘捕

Rawlings had been picked up by police at his office.

羅林斯已在辦公室遭警察拘捕。

The police picked him up within the hour.

警察不到一小時就將他逮捕了。

2、give up

放棄；戒除

Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.

海岸警衛隊對兩位潛水員生還已完全不抱希望。

smokers who give up before 30.

30歲以前戒煙的人

辭去（工作）

She gave up her job to join her husband's campaign.

她辭去工作，加入到丈夫的宣傳活動中。

He is thinking of giving up teaching.

他在考慮辭去教書的工作。

把…讓給

Georgia refuses to give up any territory.

格魯吉亞拒絕出讓任何領土。

One of the men with him gave up his place on the bench.

他的一個同伴將長椅上的位子讓了出來。