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pluck sth
直接接宾语，表示摘取、拔除。
She plucked a flower from the garden.
她从花园里摘了一朵花。
拔；扯；猛拉
plucking — present participle of pluck
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
拔；扯；猛拉
to pull or twitch something sharply and quickly, especially to remove it
She plucked a flower from the garden.
她从花园里摘了一朵花。
猛拉；拔出
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
迅速带走或移走某人
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
拨动乐器的弦
To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
拔鸟的羽毛
To remove feathers from (a bird).
pluck
Base
原形
plucks
3rd person
第三人称单数
plucking
-ing
现在分词
plucked
Past
过去式
plucked
Past participle
过去分词
She plucks the chicken.
她拔鸡毛。
He plucked the guitar string.
他拨动了吉他弦。
They have plucked all the flowers.
他们已经摘了所有的花。
规则动词
She plucked a ripe apple from the tree.
她从树上摘了一个成熟的苹果。
He plucked the guitar strings gently, producing a soft melody.
他轻轻拨动吉他弦，奏出柔和的旋律。
The chef plucked the chicken before roasting it.
厨师在烤鸡之前拔掉了鸡毛。
直接接宾语，表示摘取、拔除。
She plucked a flower from the garden.
她从花园里摘了一朵花。
指定来源，常与from或off连用。
He plucked a feather from the bird's wing.
他从鸟翅膀上拔下一根羽毛。
后接at，表示反复轻拉或拨弄。
The child plucked at her mother's sleeve.
孩子拉着母亲的袖子。
Not this
He plucked courage to ask her out.
Use this
He plucked up courage to ask her out.
动词短语 pluck up courage 表示'鼓起勇气'时，不能省略 up。
Not this
She plucked the red one from the menu.
Use this
She picked the red one from the menu.
在表示'选择'时，应使用 pick 而不是 pluck；pluck 用于用力拉或摘取。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
拨弦
She plucked a string on the guitar.
她拨了一下吉他的琴弦。
给鸡拔毛
We spent the afternoon plucking chickens.
我们花了一下午给鸡拔毛。
拔出
He plucked out the gray hair.
他拔掉了一根白头发。
扯某人的袖子
She plucked at his sleeve to get his attention.
她扯了扯他的袖子以引起他的注意。
把某人从默默无闻中发掘出来
The coach plucked the young player from obscurity.
教练把这位年轻球员从默默无闻中发掘了出来。
摘花
He plucked a flower from the garden.
他从花园里摘了一朵花。
鼓起勇气
He finally plucked up the courage to ask her out.
他终于鼓起勇气约她出去。
凭空想出；凭空捏造
The reporter seemed to pluck his statistics out of thin air.
这名记者似乎凭空捏造了他的统计数据。
拨动某人的心弦
The movie's final scene really plucks at your heartstrings.
这部电影的最后一幕确实拨动你的心弦。
如果你的右眼使你犯罪，就把它剜出来丢掉。
This famous quote comes from the King James Bible (Matthew 5:29). In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses extreme exaggeration to teach that it is better to sacrifice something precious than to let it cause sin. Here, 'pluck out' means to forcibly remove.
这句名言出自英王钦定版圣经（马太福音5:29）。在登山宝训中，耶稣用极端的夸张说法教导人们：宁可牺牲宝贵的东西，也不要让它导致犯罪。这里的'pluck out'意为强行拔出。
你会把我秘密的核心挖出来。
In Shakespeare's play Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 2), Hamlet tells his former friend Guildenstern that he cannot uncover Hamlet's true thoughts. 'Pluck out' means to extract or reveal, and the sentence means trying to uncover a person's deepest secrets.
在莎士比亚的戏剧《哈姆雷特》第三幕第二场中，哈姆雷特对昔日好友吉尔登斯特恩说，他无法弄清哈姆雷特真正在想什么。'pluck out'意为取出或揭露出，这句话的意思是试图探究一个人最深的秘密。
Use plucking naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 pluck 记作“扑”的一下：拔毛、拔钉子、拨琴弦都是快速一抽或一勾的动作。
语域：mixed 常见场景：cooking (preparing poultry)、music (playing stringed instruments)、literary or formal narrative pluck 的语域会随使用场景变化：在烹饪（给禽类拔毛）和音乐（拨弦）中比较常见，属于中性表达；在表示“迅速带走某人”或抽象、文学化的“拉、扯”时，通常多用于书面语或正式叙事，日常口语中较少单独使用。
这些词都与 pluck 押韵（重读元音 /ʌ/ 后跟 /k/）：luck、duck、truck、stuck、buck、chuck。注意拼写相似的 plume /pluːm/ 和 plough /plaʊ/ 并不与 pluck 押韵。
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