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Pick Picked 例:He Verb Choose Phrase Group Pieces

单词 picking
音标
英['pɪkɪŋ] 美['pɪkɪŋ]
解释
v.采摘;采( pick的现在分词 );摘;啄;叼;n.采摘;掘,撬开;采得物,赃物;
例句

VERB
挑选;选择
If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one.
例:Mr Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in London...诺埃尔先生为伦敦的6个销售职位选出了10人进行面试。
例:I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate.我特意选了一个热带气候的城市。

N-SING
精华;精品;精英
You can refer to the best things or people in a particular group as the pick of that group.
例:The boys here are the pick of the under-15 cricketers in the country...这儿的男孩是全国15岁以下板球手中的佼佼者。
例:We had the pick of suits from the shop.我们买了店里最好的套装。

VERB
采;摘
When you pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, you break them off the plant or tree and collect them.
例:She used to pick flowers in the Cromwell Road...她过去常到克伦威尔路采花。
例:He helps his mother pick fruit.他帮母亲摘果子。

VERB
拿取;挪移
If you pick something from a place, you remove it from there with your fingers or your hand.
例:He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate...他拿起腿上的餐巾,放在盘子旁边。
例:He picked the telephone off the wall bracket.他从墙上的固定托架上摘下电话。

VERB
抠(鼻);剔(牙)
If you pick your nose or teeth, you remove substances from inside your nose or between your teeth.
例:Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear...埃德加,不要抠鼻子,宝贝儿。
例:He had just had a meal and was picking his teeth after it.他刚吃完饭,正在剔牙。

VERB
寻找…的口实;寻(衅);找(碴儿)
If you pick a fight or quarrel with someone, you deliberately cause one.
例:He picked a fight with a waiter and landed in jail...他找碴儿跟服务生打了一架,最后进了监狱。
例:He was clearly in a mood to pick a quarrel with anybody.他现在的心情明显是逮谁就想跟谁吵。

VERB
撬开(锁);扒窃…中的东西
If someone such as a thief picks a lock, they open it without a key, for example by using a piece of wire.
例:He picked each lock deftly, and rifled the papers within each drawer.他熟练地撬开每一把锁,把每个抽屉里的文件都偷走了。

N-COUNT
同 pickaxe
A pick is the same as a pickaxe .

PHRASE
挑挑拣拣;挑三拣四;挑剔
If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
例:As a vocational teacher I could pretty much pick and choose my work...作为一名职业教师,我几乎可以随意挑拣自己的工作。
例:We, the patients, cannot pick and choose our doctors.我们患者不能对医生挑挑拣拣。

PHRASE
可从…中任意挑选
If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
例:Here is an actress who could have her pick of any part...这是一个角色任她挑选的女演员。
例:Klein could have had his pick of the world's top models.克莱恩本可以从世界顶尖模特中想选谁就选谁。

PHRASE
任意挑选
If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
例:Accountants can take their pick of company cars...会计师可以任选配备的公车。
例:Take your pick from ten luxury hotels...10家豪华宾馆任你选择。

PHRASE
择路而行;小心行路
If you pick your way across an area, you walk across it very carefully in order to avoid obstacles or dangerous things.
例:The girls were afraid of snakes and picked their way along with extreme caution...女孩们害怕蛇,于是谨小慎微地择路而行。
例:I moved away from the shack and picked my way among the rubble.我离开木屋,小心地走在瓦砾间。

PHRASE
收拾残局;努力恢复正常
When you pick up the pieces after a disaster, you do what you can to get the situation back to normal again.
例:Do we try and prevent problems or do we try and pick up the pieces afterwards?...我们是想要防患未然呢,还是想要事后收拾残局?
例:She died, and somehow I never picked up the pieces and started again.她死后我竟一蹶不振,无法重新来过。

PHRASE
加速
When a vehicle picks up speed, it begins to move more quickly.
例:Brian pulled away slowly, but picked up speed.布赖恩慢慢开动汽车,但很快就加速了。
变形
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