pick
柯林斯词典
1. V-T If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one. 挑选
Mr. Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in Dallas. 诺埃尔先生为在达拉斯的六个销售职位挑选了十人进行面试。
2. N-SING You can refer to the best things or people in a particular group as the pick of that group. 精华; 精英
The boys here are the pick of the high school's football players. 这儿的男孩都是该中学足球队的精英。
3. V-T When you pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, you break them off the plant or tree and collect them. 采摘
She used to pick flowers in the Adirondacks. 她以前常去阿迪朗达克山采花。
4. V-T If you pick something from a place, you remove it from there with your fingers or your hand. 拿走
He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate. 他从腿上拿起餐巾,放在他的盘子旁边。
5. V-T If you pick your nose or teeth, you remove substances from inside your nose or between your teeth. 抠 (鼻子); 剔 (牙)
Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear. 埃德加,不要抠鼻子,亲爱的。
6. V-T If you pick a fight with someone, you deliberately cause one. 挑衅
He picked a fight with a waiter and landed in jail. 他找茬儿和服务员打架,结果锒铛入狱。
7. V-T If someone such as a thief picks a lock, they open it without a key, for example, by using a piece of wire. 撬 (锁)
He picked each lock deftly, and rifled the papers within each drawer. 他熟练地撬开每一把锁,偷走了每个抽屉里的文件。
8. N-COUNT A pick is the same as a . 同 pickax
9. V to pierce, dig, or break up (a hard surface) with a pick (用鹤嘴锄)凿; 掘; 挖
10. V to cast (a shuttle) 投(梭)
11. N one casting of a shuttle 投梭
12. PHRASE If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things. 任意挑选
Accountants can take their pick of company cars. 会计们可以任意挑选公司的汽车。
13. to pick holes in something→see hole
14. to pick someone's pocket→see pocket
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pick /pɪk/ (picking,picked,picks)
剑桥词典
- I was never picked for the school football team .
- I asked him which pastry he wanted and he picked an almond croissant .
- I gave her a choice of several toys and she picked a doll .
- Of all the gorgeous clothes in the shop she picked a really plain grey sweater .
- Do you want to help me pick some numbers for my lottery ticket .
- You ought to pick those lettuces before they shrivel and die .
- I tend to leave the windfalls for the birds to pick at.
- He thought we'd been picking his apples and came after us with a stick .
- She sat there sulking and picking the pills off her sweater .
- The fruit is picked and artificially ripened before shipping .
pick verb (CHOOSE)
[ 及物动词:后面接宾语的动词 ]to take some things and leave others
挑选;选择
Pick a card from the pack . 从这纸牌中挑出一张。
One of my sisters has been picked for the Olympic team . 我的一个姐姐入选了奥运代表队。
[ 加宾语的动词后面接一个带to的不定式 ] She was picked to play for the team . 她被选中代表该队参赛。
The police asked him if he could pick (out) the killer from a series of photos . 警察问他能否从一组照片中认出凶手。
The fairest way to decide the winner is to pick a name out of a hat /at random (= without looking or choosing ). 决出优胜者最公平的办法是任意/随机选取一个名字。
They picked their way (= carefully chose a route ) down the broken steps . 他们小心翼翼地走下断裂的台阶。
He's brilliant at picking winners (= choosing what will be successful ). 他在判断谁能获胜方面很有眼力。
比较
choose
pick and choose often disapproving
to take some things but not others
挑挑拣拣;精挑细选
The richest universities can pick and choose which students they take. 最有钱的大学可以对生源精挑细选。
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pick verb (REMOVE)
[ 不及物动词:后面不接宾语的动词 or 及物动词:后面接宾语的动词 ]to remove separate things or small pieces from something, especially with the fingers
从…上剔除,从…摘下
I picked a piece of fluff off my shiny black suit . 我从闪闪发亮的黑色套装上拽掉一根绒毛。
The child continued picking (at) a sore on his leg (= trying to remove parts of it with his fingers ). 那个孩子不停地抓挠他腿上的疮。
[ + obj + adj ] The carcass had been picked clean (= all the flesh had been removed ) by other animals and birds . 动物尸体上的肉已被别的动物和鸟吃得干干净净。
disapproving He kept picking his nose (= removing mucus from it with his finger ). 他在不停地掏鼻孔。
[ 及物动词:后面接宾语的动词 ]
When you pick flowers or fruit , you take them off a plant or tree .
(从植物或树上)采,摘
They were picking strawberries for twelve hours a day . 他们每天摘12小时的草莓。
I picked some roses this morning . 今天早上我摘了一些玫瑰。
Machines pick the fruit (from/off the trees ). 机器把果子(从树上)摘下来。
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pick verb (PLAY INSTRUMENT)
[ 及物动词:后面接宾语的动词 ]When you pick a string on a guitar or similar instrument , you pull it quickly and release it suddenly with your fingers to produce a note .
弹拨,弹奏(吉他等弦乐器)
习语
pick sb's brainspick sb's pocket
pick yourself up off the floor
pick a fight/quarrel/argument
pick holes in sth
pick 'n' mix
短语动词
pick at sthpick sb/sth off
pick on sb
pick sb/sth out
pick sth out
pick over sth
pick through sth
pick sb/sth up
pick sth up
pick (sth) up
更多短语动词
pick sb up
pick up
pick sb up on sth
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