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Two main uses. As a verb, to pluck something means to pull it out quickly with your fingers, like plucking a flower, plucking (pulling out hair), or plucking a chicken (pulling out its feathers before cooking). It also means to pull the strings of an instrument like a guitar. As a noun, "pluck" is an older word for courage — being brave and not giving up, even in a hard moment. This noun use is less common now; you might meet it in a book or hear an older speaker use it, but younger people usually just say "brave" or "guts."
拔（動詞：拔毛、摘花）；勇氣（名詞，較少用）
組成No clean split. From Old English "pluccian," meaning to pull.
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pluckverb/plʌk/
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To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
- The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined.
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To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- First of all, he says a lot of the promotions from the ranks are promotions of the sons of officers who have gone wrong , or got "plucked," or what not, and who are brought up again along another road for commissioned rank.
- The hardest mission fell to the tanker aircraft, decidedly unglamorous birds, mainly flown by Air Force Reserve crews—most of them plucked from their airline jobs—so rapidly called into service that FAA rules for crew rest time on domestic airlines were quietly violated for the next several weeks.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicTo play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
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To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.
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archaicTo rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
- Indeed they seem to consider foreigners as strangers whom they should never see again, and might fairly pluck.
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To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.
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To pull or twitch sharply.
- to pluck at somebody's sleeve
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To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
- [A]mong men likely to be plucked are these for the most part. He that hath no friends, he that hath many friends […].
- He went to college, and he got— plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law […].
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Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
plucknoun/plʌk/
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An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.
- If you find yourself in this position, there is nothing for it but to haul out using external assistance. This may be from a friend who will give you a pluck off the wall, or you may be able to manage from your own resources.
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The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
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informalGuts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
- Pen had a very good mare, and rode her with uncommon pluck and grace. He took his fences with great coolness, and yet with judgment, and without bravado.
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slangCheap wine.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。