picking
v. 采摘; 采( pick的现在分词 ); 摘; 啄; 叼
n. 采摘; 掘,撬开; 采得物,赃物
If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one.
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。
I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate.
我特意选了一个热带气候的城市。
You can refer to the best things or people in a particular group as the pick of that group.
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。
We had the pick of suits from the shop.
我们买了店里最好的套装。
When you pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, you break them off the plant or tree and collect them.
She used to pick flowers in the Cromwell Road...
她过去常到克伦威尔路采花。
He helps his mother pick fruit.
他帮母亲摘果子。
If you pick something from a place, you remove it from there with your fingers or your hand.
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。
He picked the telephone off the wall bracket.
他从墙上的固定托架上摘下电话。
If you pick your nose or teeth, you remove substances from inside your nose or between your teeth.
Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear...
埃德加,不要抠鼻子,宝贝儿。
He had just had a meal and was picking his teeth after it.
他刚吃完饭,正在剔牙。
If you pick a fight or quarrel with someone, you deliberately cause one.
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。
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。
If someone such as a thief picks a lock, they open it without a key, for example by using a piece of wire.
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。
A pick is the same as a pickaxe .
If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
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。
We, the patients, cannot pick and choose our doctors.
我们患者不能对医生挑挑拣拣。
If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
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。
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。
If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
Accountants can take their pick of company cars...
会计师可以任选配备的公车。
Take your pick from ten luxury hotels...
10家豪华宾馆任你选择。
If you pick your way across an area, you walk across it very carefully in order to avoid obstacles or dangerous things.
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。
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。
When you pick up the pieces after a disaster, you do what you can to get the situation back to normal again.
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?
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。
When a vehicle picks up speed, it begins to move more quickly.
Brian pulled away slowly, but picked up speed.
布赖恩慢慢开动汽车,但很快就加速了。
1. the quantity of a crop that is harvested;
2. the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
Molly had cringed when Ann started picking up the guitar.
安开始弹吉他时,莫莉感到有些难堪。
They confirmed by wireless that she was picking up survivors.
他们通过无线电证实她在营救幸存者。
Young people are picking up ideas about good drugs and bad drugs.
年轻人正在形成毒品有好坏之分的观念。
Both groups on either side are just picking off innocent bystanders.
对峙双方都只是在瞄准射击无辜的旁观者。
Fruit-picking is boring, badly paid and very hard work.
摘水果的工作无聊,报酬低,还非常辛苦。