pick-me-up
英 [ˈpɪk miː ʌp]
美 [ˈpɪk miː ʌp]
n. 提神物品，兴奋剂(尤指药物或酒精饮料)
牛津词典
noun
- 提神物品，兴奋剂（尤指药物或酒精饮料）
something that makes you feel better, happier, healthier, etc., especially medicine or an alcoholic drink- This deal would offer the best possible pick-me-up to the town's ailing economy.
这笔交易对该镇每况愈下的经济是一服最好的强心剂。
- This deal would offer the best possible pick-me-up to the town's ailing economy.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 提神的东西；使人兴奋的东西
Apick-me-upis something that you have or do when you are tired or depressed in order to make you feel better.- When you crave a pick-me-up, don't reach for chocolate or coffee — try peppermint oil instead...
如果想提神，不要吃巧克力或者喝咖啡，试试薄荷油。 - This is an ideal New Year pick-me-up — a five day holiday in the Bahamas.
这是一服理想的新年强心剂——巴哈马5日游。
- When you crave a pick-me-up, don't reach for chocolate or coffee — try peppermint oil instead...
英英释义
noun
- a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor)
- anything with restorative powers
- she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her
双语例句
- The results suggest that coffee's pick-me-up powers may be at least partly due to consumers anticipating a caffeine "hit".
由此说明，咖啡的提神功效或许，至少部分，是因为饮用者对其提神功效的心理预期所导致。 - In an effort to boost orange juice sales in predominantly continental breakfast eating England, a campaign was devised to extol the drink's eye-opening, pick-me-up qualities.
英格兰极流行欧洲大陆式早餐，在那里橙汁的销售，便设计了一项旨在宣传饮料的醒目提神之特点的活动。 - With it, you can use a shorter period of time ( a few minutes to ten minutes), for strong CALCINED physical training, quick pick-me-up Xingnaojing.
有了它，可以用较短的时间（几分钟至十几分钟），作较强的体力煅练，快速提神醒脑。 - He ordered whiskey as pick-me-up.
他点了威士忌当提神饮料。 - He explained: 'Whenever I need a pick-me-up, I find a quiet corner and perform some form of body-weight exercise that jolts my heart up to at last 70 percent of the maximal beats per minute ( for me, that's about 170).
他说：当我需要提神了，我会去找一个安静的角落来做一些负重锻炼，来使我的心跳达到最快速度的70%（对我来说大约是每分钟170次）。 - In this part of the country, it is traditional to drink brandy with coffee as a morning pick-me-up.
在国内这个地区，把白兰地和咖啡混在一起当早晨提神的饮料喝是个传统。 - She took a pill as a pick-me-up but it put her to sleep instead.
她服了一片药当作提神剂，但却使她睡着了。 - He said: 'Buying the dessert was a real boost for my morale. I was dumped earlier this year and felt this could be a decent pick-me-up.
买这块甜点真的可以鼓舞我的士气，今年年初我被甩了，我觉得这个真的是很好的提神的东西。 - There's also always a perfume sample in her purse'for a little pick-me-up. '
她还会在手包里放上一个香水小样，让自己心情好起来。 - LL: I don't really like chocolate, so when I need a pick-me-up, I usually eat ice cream.
我也喜欢吃冰淇淋，不过，和冰淇淋比起来，我觉得“逛街买东西”更容易帮我调节心情。