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► 動詞
拾う  [ひろう]  [coll]    meaning:  find  rank: 1
☆ このタクシーを拾うのはしい ⇨ It is difficult to pick up a taxi around here
☆ とし財布拾った ⇨ He found a (someone else’s) lost wallet  (☛ Pick up something someone dropped on the ground unwittingly)

拾う  [ひろう]    meaning:  pick up  rank: 1
☆ マイク偶然拾っ会話 ⇨ A conversation the mike picked up by accident
☆ られたで拾われたチームスターになった ⇨ He has become a star player with the team that picked him up after another team had cut him
☆ 落ち拾った ⇨ He picked up the paper fell on the floor
☆ は拾われた子供められた ⇨ He was taunted as picked-up, adopted, child

拾う  [ひろう]  [coll]  [peer]    meaning:  pick up  rank: 1
☆ を拾いに行った ⇨ He’s gone to the station to pick up his daughter

拾う  [ひろう]  [coll]    meaning:  obtain  rank: 2
☆ 何処かで風邪拾ったみたいだ ⇨ It seems like I got a cold somewhere
☆ 彼等相手ミスのお勝ち拾った ⇨ They get an unlikely win thanks to the opponent’s mistake


More examples:
  • よくしたで、てるがあれば拾うがある ⇨ Things somehow work out in this world. Some dumps it and then some picks it up
  • 彼女を拾うためにめた ⇨ She bent over in order to pick something up