1 VERB 挑选；选择 If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one. 挑选；选择
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Mr Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in London. [VERB noun]
诺埃尔先生为伦敦的6个销售职位选出了10人进行面试。
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I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate. [VERB noun]
我特意选了一个热带气候的城市。
SYN select, choose, identify, elect
2 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. 精华；精品；精英
SYN best, prime, finest, tops [slang]
3 VERB 采；摘 When you pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, you break them off the plant or tree and collect them. 采；摘
SYN gather, cut, pull, collect
4 VERB 拿取；挪移 If you pick something from a place, you remove it from there with your fingers or your hand. 拿取；挪移
5 VERB 抠（鼻）；剔（牙） If you pick your nose or teeth, you remove substances from inside your nose or between your teeth. 抠（鼻）；剔（牙）
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Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear. [VERB noun]
埃德加，不要抠鼻子，宝贝儿。
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He had just had a meal and was picking his teeth after it. [VERB noun]
他刚吃完饭，正在剔牙。
6 VERB 寻找…的口实；寻（衅）；找（碴儿） If you pick a fight or quarrel with someone, you deliberately cause one. 寻找…的口实；寻（衅）；找（碴儿） [Also VERB n]
SYN provoke, start, cause, stir up
7 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. 撬开（锁）；扒窃…中的东西
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He picked each lock deftly, and rifled the papers within each drawer. [VERB noun]
他熟练地撬开每一把锁，把每个抽屉里的文件都偷走了。
SYN open, force, crack [informal] , break into
8 N-COUNT 同 pickaxe A pick is the same as a pickaxe . 同 pickaxe
9 See also: hand-pick ice pick
10 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. 挑挑拣拣；挑三拣四；挑剔
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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。
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We, the patients, cannot pick and choose our doctors.
我们患者不能对医生挑挑拣拣。
11 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. 可从…中任意挑选
12 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. 任意挑选
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Accountants can take their pick of company cars. [+ of/from]
会计师可以任选配备的公车。
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Take your pick from ten luxury hotels.
10家豪华宾馆任你选择。
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See our selection of autumn favourites and take your pick.
看看我们的秋季精选，然后挑出你想要的。
13 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. 择路而行；小心行路
14 to pick someone's brains→see: brain to pick holes in something→see: hole to pick someone's pocket→see: pocket
15 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. 收拾残局；努力恢复正常
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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？
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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。
16 PHRASE 加速 When a vehicle picks up speed, it begins to move more quickly. 加速
Phrasal verbs: - pick atpick offpick onpick outpick overpick up
| Thesaurus | pick Also look up: |
| VERB. | choose, decide on, elect, select 1 collect, gather, harvest, pull 3 |
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