pluck up

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To remove or acquire by plucking from, for example, the ground; to pick up. / (intransitive) To become more cheerful.

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She needed to pluck up the young carrots from the soil for tonight's stew.

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意味（1）

(transitive) To remove or acquire by plucking from, for example, the ground; to pick up.

If I could have settled down, I said to Biddy, plucking up the short grass within reach, much as I had once upon a time pulled my feelings out of my hair and kicked them into the brewery wall: […]

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意味（2）

(intransitive) To become more cheerful.

cæsar [taking the dates] My age! [He shakes his head and bites a date]. Yes, Rufio: I am an old man—worn out now—true, quite true. [He gives way to melancholy contemplation, and eats another date]. Achillas is still in his prime: Ptolemy is a boy. [He eats another date, and plucks up a little]. Well, every dog has his day; and I have had mine: I cannot complain.

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意味（3）

(transitive) To summon positive emotion (especially courage); to muster.

[…] But she knew that she must pluck up courage for an important moment, and she collected herself, braced her muscles, as it were, for a fight, and threw her mind into an attitude of contest.

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plucks up （ present singular third-person ）

plucking up （ participle present ）

plucked up （ participle past ）

plucked up （ past ）