VOA慢速英语:Self-Taught Artists Create Powerful and Unusual Works

bring attention to引起注意

例句：There is one point I must bring to everybody's attention.
      有一问题我要提请大家注意。

2.In this work Mister Wolfli turned his sad childhood into a magical travel story.

turn into(使)变成

例句：Joan is turning into quite a skilled musician.
      琼正在变成一个技艺精湛的音乐家。

      Her bitter experience has turned her into a stronger person.
      痛苦的经历使她变得更坚强了。

3.Police picked him up in Northern California in nineteen thirty-one.

pick up捉住, 逮住

例句：He was implicated in a murder, and sooner or later they would pick him up.
      他和一宗凶杀案有牵连, 迟早他们会逮捕他的。

      He is picked up on a charge of killing a man.
      他因犯有杀人罪而被逮捕。

安排接取; 使搭乘; 搭救

例句：The shipwrecked sailors were picked up by a passing boat.
      一艘过路的船只搭救了遭受船难的水手。