单词 | pick |
释义 | pickWord family adjectivepickedpickynounpickednesspickerpickerypickingpicklockpick-me-uppickoffpickpocketpick Musicpick1 /pɪk/ ●●● S1 W1 verb [transitiveT] → pic 1 choose STH 选择某物CHOOSE to choose a person or thing, for example because they are the best or most suitable 挑选;选择 Students have to pick three courses from a list of 15. 学生必须从15门课中选修3门。 I don’t know which colour to pick. 我不知道要选哪个颜色。 Who’s going to pick the team for the match on Saturday? 谁将为星期六的比赛挑选队员? pick somebody/something for something I wasn’t picked for the hockey team. 我没被选进曲棍球队。 pick somebody/something as something The hotel was picked as the best small hotel in the area. 那家宾馆被选为那个地区的最佳小型宾馆。 pick somebody to do something He was picked to run in the 100 metres. 他被选中参加100米赛跑。 Russell spoke slowly, picking his words (=choosing what to say) very carefully. → picked► see thesaurus at choose 罗素讲得很慢,措辞谨慎。 2 flowers/fruit etc 花/水果等PULL to remove a flower, fruit, nut etc from a plant or tree 采,摘〔花、果等〕 We picked some blackberries to eat on the way. 途中我们采了一些黑莓吃。 Amy picked a small bunch of wild flowers. 埃米采了一小把野花。 a dish of freshly picked peas 一盘新摘的豌豆 3 remove STH 去除某物 [always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]REMOVE to remove something carefully from a place, especially something small 挖,剔 pick something from something Ahmed picked the melon pips from his teeth. 艾哈迈德剔去牙缝里的瓜籽。 pick something off (something) She was nervously picking bits of fluff off her sweater. 她紧张地择着毛衣上的小绒毛。 pick something out of something The goalkeeper spent a lot of his time picking the ball out of the back of the net. 守门员很多时间都花在从网窝里捡球上。 4 pick your way through/across/among etc something MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONCAREFULto walk in a slow careful way, choosing exactly where to put your feet down 小心翼翼地穿过某物 She picked her way between the puddles. 她小心翼翼地绕过一个个水坑。 He picked his way down the narrow staircase. 他小心翼翼地走下狭窄的楼梯。 Examples from the Corpus pick your way through/across/among etc something• Hardly glancing at Berowne's body Dalgliesh picked his way across the carpet to Harry Mack and squatted beside him.• I picked my way through the noisy tables and went into the Gents.• Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change.• So four of us took our stirrup pumps and torches and picked our way through what was a minefield.• The Arvins came picking their way through rubble, nervous as rats, poking people aside with the barrels of their M-16s.• There was just one lock, and I picked my way through it with ease.• They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.• We pick our way across the cement floor and into the battered portacabin. 5 pick your nose to remove mucus from your nose with your finger 抠鼻子 Don’t pick your nose! 别抠鼻子! Examples from the Corpus pick your nose• Davey, don't pick your nose!• Edwina Currie was opening her post, Sir James Spicer was picking his nose.• You have to watch them picking their noses.• Centuries later the light brought two of the shepherds, the tall one picking his nose, and Douthwaite smirking.• Please don't pick your nose at the table.• I just saw a man trying not to pick his nose behind his newspaper!• The young Eric was looking away and picking his nose, looking bored.• He wouldn't be allowed to fart or pick his nose or put his feet on the table.• The toilet stank of urine, and at one point a chef was seen picking his nose while preparing food. 6. pick your teeth DFHBHto remove bits of food from between your teeth with your finger or a small pointed object 剔牙 Examples from the Corpus pick your teeth• Hands to muzzle, he delicately picked his teeth.• There was a long pause while he picked his teeth and looked down into the seat of his chair.• They were there at lunchtime and still there in the evening, just reading, picking their teeth, and watching.• He was picking his teeth with a match while some one on the phone talked his ear off.• Woolley picked his teeth with a matchstick.• Well, pop a mint, our friends, head for the hills, and pick your teeth with a mesquite twig.• He began to pick his teeth with a toothpick.• The man sawed very quickly with one hand and picked his teeth with the other hand. 7 pick somebody’s brains ASK FOR something/ASK somebody TO DO somethingto ask someone who knows a lot about something for information and advice about it 向某人讨教[请教] Have you got a minute? I need to pick your brains. 您有时间吗?我要向您请教一下。 Examples from the Corpus pick somebody’s brains• You know all about tax law - can I pick your brains for a minute?• The workshop is designed so that new managers can pick the brains of managers with more experience. 8 pick a quarrel/fight (with somebody) ARGUEto deliberately start a quarrel or fight with someone (对某人)找碴/(向某人)挑衅 I could see he was trying to pick a fight with me. 我看得出来他是想找碴跟我打架。 Examples from the Corpus pick a quarrel/fight (with somebody)• We adults do the same: we come home from work and start complaining or picking a fight.• Had never picked a fight in his life.• Barton Lynch's manager had once picked a fight with him.• Anthony Ryan was known in his family as able to pick a fight with his own fingernails.• His favorite thing is to pick fights with me and then leave brown lunch bags on our doorstep.• From a lack of communication, parents are more likely to misunderstand, blame, or pick fights with one another.• But it is hard to pick a quarrel with pasta.• The first thing Vicious does is start picking fights with these guys who are supposed to protect him. 9 pick and choose to choose only the best people or things, or only the ones that you really like 仔细挑选〔最好的或真正喜欢的人或物〕,挑挑拣拣 Come on, you haven’t got time to pick and choose. 快点,没时间挑挑拣拣了。 Examples from the Corpus pick and choose• But if you've got your own boat and you're not allergic to work, you can pick and choose.• And so you can pick and choose and try to get the right mixture or balance.• He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.• At Thrush Green she would be able to pick and choose her employers.• Unlike us correspondents, who could pick and choose our risks, they had no choice.• There have been no secret meetings of the Democrat majority to pick and choose personnel.• You can't just pick and choose which laws you're going to follow.• Friendlies are the easiest to start with, as you can pick and choose your opponents.• Remember, however, to pick and choose your wheat berries according to type. 10 pick a lock OPENto use something that is not a key to unlock a door, drawer etc 〔用钥匙之外的东西〕打开[撬开]锁 It’s quite easy to pick the lock on a car door. 撬开汽车门锁轻而易举。 Examples from the Corpus pick a lock• Attached to the ring was the piece of wire he used to pick locks.• If I can pick a lock open, I ought to be able to pick it shut.• He had taught them how to pick a lock, steal a car, to shoplift ... The list was endless. 11 pick a hole in something to make a hole in something by pulling it with your fingers 把某物扯出一个洞 He had picked a hole in his jumper. 他把自己的毛衣扯出了一个洞。 12 pick holes in something informal to criticize an idea or a plan by saying what its weak points are 批评某事物;挑某事物的毛病;找某事物的漏洞 It’s easy to pick holes in her argument. 她的论据漏洞百出。 Examples from the Corpus pick holes in something• I had no trouble picking holes in her theory. 13. pick something clean EATto remove all the meat from a bone when you are eating 把〔骨头〕啃得一干二净 14. pick somebody’s pocket STEALto quietly steal something from someone’s pocket 扒窃 → pickpocket Examples from the Corpus pick somebody’s pocket• On our last day in the city, someone picked my pocket. 15. pick a winner informalCHOOSE to choose someone or something very good 挑选得极好 Examples from the Corpus pick a winner• Experience to date and motivational goal data give us our greatest chance of picking a winner.• A technology Strategy does not mean that a government has to pick winners and losers.• Trust you, Dwight, to pick a winner, and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him!• Softbank claims that it is better at picking winners and that it is buying into a growth industry.• The government hopes to pick a winner in May but the selection could be delayed. 16 pick something to pieces informalCRITICIZE to criticize something very severely and in a very detailed way 把某事物驳得体无完肤 I’m fed up with having my work picked to pieces. 我的工作被贬得一无是处,我受够了。 17. musical instrument 乐器 American EnglishAmEAPM to play a musical instrument by pulling at its strings with your fingers 弹拨〔琴弦〕;弹奏〔弦乐器〕 SYN pluck → have a bone to pick with somebody at bone1(10) PHRASAL VERBS18 pick at something phrasal verbphr v a) EATto eat only small amounts of food because you do not feel hungry or do not like the food 〔因不饿或不喜欢而〕一点一点地吃,挑挑拣拣地吃 Paige could only pick at her meal, forcing down a mouthful or two. 佩奇只能勉为其难地吃着饭,强迫自己咽下一两口。 b) TOUCHto touch something many times with your fingers, pulling it slightly 〔反复地〕拉扯 She was picking at her skirt. 她不停地拉扯自己的裙子。 Examples from the Corpus pick at • If not, she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away.• Sometimes she picks at her fingers.• At dinner Norm had seconds of everything, but Benjy only picked at his food.• I pictured myself picking at least three hundred pounds a day and took the job.• A glow that came down over the trees, and picked at the burn, and spilled through my bedroom window.• Check for birds picking at the water.• I started to pick at them.• Mushroom picking at Wilgro Mushrooms at Wath, near Ripon. 19 pick somebody/something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v SHOOTto point a weapon carefully at one person or animal in a group, and then shoot them 瞄准射击〔人或动物〕 There were gunmen in some of the buildings who picked off our men as they went past. 其中一些大楼里有枪手,我们的人经过时他们就开枪射击。 20 pick on somebody/something phrasal verbphr v spoken a) BLAMEto behave in an unfair way to someone, for example by blaming them or criticizing them unfairly 故意刁难 〔某人〕,跟〔某人〕找别扭 Why don’t you pick on someone else for a change? 你为什么不换个人刁难刁难? b) CHOOSE British EnglishBrE to choose a particular person or thing 选择〔某人或某物〕 Just pick on one job and try to get that finished. 只管选一项工作,并设法完成。 21 pick somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v a) choose 挑选CHOOSE to choose someone or something from a group 挑选〔人或物〕 She picked out a navy blue dress. 她挑中一条海军蓝的连衣裙。 His story was picked out as the best by the judges. 他的小说被评委们评为第一名。 b) recognize 认出RECOGNIZE to recognize someone or something in a group of people or things 分辨出,辨认出 She was able to pick out her father at the other side of the room. 她发现父亲就在房间另一头。 I picked out Valerie’s voice from among the general conversation. 我从众人的说话声中听出了瓦莱丽的声音。 c) see 看见 if you can pick something out, you can see it but not very clearly 模糊地看出 I could just pick out some letters carved into the stone. 我只能依稀辨认出石头上刻的一些字母。 d) shown clearly 清晰地显示 if something is picked out, it is in a different colour or material from the background, so that it can be clearly seen 〔用某种颜色或材料〕使醒目 His name was picked out in gold lettering. 他的名字用了金色字母,很是醒目。 n Grammar Pick out is usually passive in this meaning. e) play a tune 奏出曲调APM to play a tune on a musical instrument slowly or with difficulty 〔缓慢或困难地〕弹[拉]奏 He sat at the piano and picked out a simple tune. 他坐在钢琴前,慢慢弹出一支简单的曲子。 Examples from the Corpus pick out• I could also pick his feet out and deal with the foot-rot which was starting to set in.• Helen picked it out and dropped it on the floor; beneath was a tangle of string.• Lead me into a room and I could pick them out for you.• When you picked one out it left a can-shaped cav - ity.• I bet you he can pick him out of a crowd of people.• They had grown up and gone to work picking stump out of every other burned off field in this Florida county.• It must be marvelous to just belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.• She unerringly picks us out of the crowd in the cavernous old building. 22 pick over something phrasal verbphr v EXAMINEto examine a group of things very carefully in order to choose the ones you want 精挑细选,甄选,精选 She was sitting at the kitchen table picking over a pile of mushrooms. 她坐在餐桌边,仔细挑拣着一堆蘑菇。 Examples from the Corpus pick over • They will certainly have plenty to pick over.• Back at the cottage she found Rodney and Veronica in the kitchen picking over a pile of fungi.• The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls, starlings, crows and ravens.• Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs.• These fingers holding cups and glasses are the ones you see picking over clothes on the stalls.• They had picked over discarded fruits and vegetables evenings under Park Avenue Bridge, cooking over Sterno stoves.• That's if the lawyers left her anything after they'd picked over the bones.• Crows were busy picking over the remains of a thousand improvised picnics. 23 pick through something phrasal verbphr v LOOK FORto search through a pile of things to find things that you want 在…里搜寻〔以发现想要的东西〕 Police are still picking through the rubble looking for clues to the cause of the explosion. 警察还在瓦砾中搜寻有关爆炸原因的线索。 Examples from the Corpus pick through • Another edges his way towards him ... picking through mines and tripwires.• Children pick through piles of spoiled food in the alleys outside.• A man and a woman pick through the filth while cattle forage.• Gary is silent again, and eats carefully, his huge hands delicately picking through the food, his head clamped downwards.• I loved to pick through trash piles and collect empty bottles, tin cans with Pretty labels, and discarded magazines.• They pick through trash, poke through mail and tap into sophisticated computer databases in search of the elusive money trail. 24 pick up phrasal verbphr v a) lift STH/SB up 捡起[拿起,拾起]某物;举起某人LIFT pick something/somebody ↔ up to lift something or someone up 捡起,拿起,举起 He picked up the letter and read it. 他拿起信看了起来。 The phone rang and I picked it up. 电话响了,我接了起来。 Mummy, can you pick me up? 妈妈,把我抱起来好吗? b) pick yourself upLIFT to get up from the ground after you have fallen 〔跌倒后〕站起来 Carol picked herself up and brushed the dirt off her coat. 卡罗尔站起身,拍去外套上的灰尘。 c) tidy STH 整理某物 pick something ↔ up American EnglishAmETIDY to make a room or building tidy 整理,收拾 Pick up your room before you go to bed. 收拾一下房间再上床。 d) get STH 得到某物 pick something ↔ up informal i. GETto get or win something 获得;赢得 He’s already picked up three major prizes this year. 今年他已经拿了三项大奖。 ii. BUYto buy something or get it from a shop etc 买到 I picked up an evening paper on the way home. 我在回家的路上买了一份晚报。 For more details, pick up a leaflet in your local post office. 欲知更多详情,请到当地邮局取阅宣传单。 iii. to get an illness 染上〔疾病〕 I picked up a virus while I was in America. 我在美国的时候感染了病毒。 e) collect 领取 pick something ↔ upGET to collect something from a place 取〔某物〕 I’ll pick my things up later. 我过一会儿来取我的东西。 She just dropped by to pick up her mail. 她只是顺便过来取她的邮件。 f) let SB into a vehicle 让某人进入车辆 pick somebody ↔ upGET to let someone get into your car, boat etc and take them somewhere 搭载,接载 I’ll pick you up at the station. 我会到车站接你。 The survivors were picked up by fishing boats from nearby villages. 幸存者被附近村庄的渔船救了起来。 g) learn 学会 pick something ↔ upLEARN to learn something by watching or listening to other people 〔通过观察或聆听而〕学会 I picked up a few words of Greek when I was there last year. 去年在希腊的时候我学会了一些希腊语单词。 Mary watched the other dancers to see if she could pick up any tips. 玛丽观察其他跳舞的人,看能否学到什么窍门。 h) notice 注意 pick something ↔ upSMELLHEAR to notice something that is not easy to notice, such as a slight smell or a sign of something 注意到〔不容易注意的事情〕 I picked up a faint smell of coffee. 我闻到淡淡的咖啡味。 The dogs picked up the scent and raced off. 那些狗闻到了气味,一下子跑开了。 We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river. 我们在河对岸又发现了他们的足迹。 i) radio/signals 无线电/信号HEAR pick something ↔ up if a machine picks up a sound, movement, or signal, it is able to notice it or receive it 接收 The sensors pick up faint vibrations in the earth. 传感器探测到地球内部微弱的颤动。 I managed to pick up an American news broadcast. 我设法收听到一档美国的新闻广播节目。 j) sex 性 pick somebody ↔ upMEET to become friendly with someone you have just met because you want to have sex with them 勾搭上 young women sitting around in bars waiting to be picked up 闲坐在酒吧等人来搭讪的年轻女子 k) start again 重新开始 i. CONTINUE/START AGAINif you pick up where you stopped or were interrupted, you start again from that point 〔从谈话、会议停顿的地方〕继续 We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off. 我们上午会再次碰面,到时候接着继续。 ii. IDEA pick something ↔ up if you pick up an idea that has been mentioned, you return to it and develop it further 回过头来进一步阐述〔某观点〕 I’d like to pick up what you said earlier. 我想再谈谈先前你说过的问题。 This same theme is picked up in his later works. 相同的主题又出现在他后来的作品中。 l) improve 改进,提高 i. IMPROVEif a situation picks up, it improves 〔情况〕改进,提高,好转 Her social life was picking up at last. 她的社交生活终于有了起色。 The economy is finally beginning to pick up again. 经济终于开始有所好转。 We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now. 我们度过了一段困难时期,不过目前情况又开始好转了。 ii. pick somebody upHEALTHY if a medicine or drink picks you up, it makes you feel better 〔药物或饮料〕使某人感觉好些,使振作精神 → pick-me-up m) road 道路 pick something ↔ up if you pick up a road, you go onto it and start driving along it 沿某条路行进 We take the A14 to Birmingham and then pick up the M5. 我们沿14号干线公路到伯明翰,然后上5号高速公路。 n) train/bus 火车/公共汽车 pick something ↔ up if you pick up a train, bus etc, you get onto it and travel on it 乘坐 o) pick up speed/steamFAST/QUICK to go faster 加快速度 The train was gradually picking up speed. 火车正在逐渐加速。 p) pick up the bill/tab (for something) informalPAY FOR to pay for something (为某事物)付款 Why should the taxpayer pick up the tab for mistakes made by a private company? 为什么纳税人要为一家私人公司的过错所造成的损失买单呢? q) wind 风FAST/QUICK if the wind picks up, it increases or grows stronger 变大,变强 r) colour 颜色 pick something ↔ upSUIT/LOOK GOOD TOGETHER if one thing picks up a colour in something else, it has an amount of the same colour in it so that the two things look nice together 含有…的颜色〔因而搭配得好〕 I like the way the curtains pick up the red in the rug. 窗帘带点地毯中的红色,我喜欢这种搭配。 s) criminal 罪犯 pick somebody ↔ upCATCH if the police pick someone up, they take them somewhere to answer questions or to be locked up 逮捕某人,拘捕某人 He was picked up by police as he was trying to leave the country. 他企图出境时被警察拘捕。 t) pick up the pieces (of something)RECOVER/GET BETTER to try to make your life normal again after something very bad has happened to you (使某事物)重整旗鼓,恢复正常 Thousands of victims of the earthquake are now faced with the task of picking up the pieces of their lives. 数以千计的地震灾民现在面临着重建生活的重担。 u) pick up the threads (of something)CONTINUE/START AGAIN if you pick up the threads of something that you were doing, you try to return to it and start doing it again after it stopped or was changed 恢复,重新开始(某事物) Now that the war was over they could pick up the threads of their lives again. 战争已经结束,他们可以重新开始生活了。 v) pick your feet up spoken used to tell someone to walk properly or more quickly 好好走路;快点走 Examples from the Corpus pick up• Do you want me to come back and pick you guys up?• He's hoping to pick up a few bargains at the sales.• I picked up a few words of Turkish when I was in Istanbul.• I picked up a stomach bug on holiday in Turkey.• Hi, I've come to pick up a suit I left on Tuesday.• I told Virginia I'd pick her up about 8:00.• I feel like I spend all my time picking up after the kids.• After the phone had rung twice, Joyce picked it up and said hello.• Brendan has a cold. He must have picked it up at school.• Financial commentators think we'll see the economy starting to pick up early next year.• Can you pick some milk up from the shop on your way home?• Come on Bob, pick up! I know you're there.• At present the hotel is almost empty, but I'm sure things will start to pick up in the spring.• I arranged to pick up Mr Clarke and take him to his accommodation.• "Where's Diana?" "She just left to pick up the kids from school."• Could you pick up the newspapers and magazines for me?• I'll pick up the tickets on my way home from work.• A lifeboat picked them up two miles from the coast.• Help me pick these things up. We have company coming.• It's just a little thing I picked up when I was in Kathmandu. pick yourself up• A team in such a position is likely to find it hard to pick itself up.• Shaken and deafened, I picked myself up.• I crashed to the ground, picked myself up, and began staggering around the car to the other side.• Carol picked herself up and dusted herself off.• He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor.• Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again.• Although he picked himself up and walked away, he knew something was wrong.• I fell, picked myself up, lurched forward another yard or two, then fell again.• However, Grimm was already picking himself up, swearing, dusting himself off, retrieving his cap. things are picking up• Well, things are picking up again. pick up speed/steam• Of course, good melody will sound fine at any tempo, so play slowly and gradually pick up speed.• The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.• The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.• As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m.• The coach picked up speed as it rattled and jolted down to Forty-second Street.• Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.• If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening. pick up the bill/tab (for something)• After its shareholder equity turned negative last year, parent Dasa started picking up the bills.• But remember - raid your savings now and Santa won't pick up the bill.• Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.• When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.• In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.• I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.• The company's picking up the bill for my trip to Hawaii.• There is a growing, often unstated, anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services.• Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten, twenty or thirty years. pick up the pieces (of something)• It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.• This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces.• Whimper like a whipped puppy, Jay, have a drink and pick up the pieces.• The town is beginning to pick up the pieces after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.• As proved by history, women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war.• Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.• I picked up the pieces myself.• In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.• In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives. pick up the threads (of something)• She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.• The good thing is that he's trying to pick up the threads of his life again.• Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life. pick your feet up• Ronnie, stop shuffling and pick your feet up. 25 pick up after somebody phrasal verbphr v informal to tidy things that someone else has left untidy 跟在〔某人〕后面收拾[整理]东西 I’m tired of picking up after you! 我烦透了总是跟在你屁股后面收拾! Examples from the Corpus pick up after • The total numbers of teachers fell in the early 1980s and only began to pick up after 1983.• Ten people were picked up after four hours in the water, and the eleventh after five hours.• However, love will dictate that Tony at least pick up after himself.• Bonus: Promise to do any chore, even picking up after the dog.• When Lucy went around the dressing rooms picking up after the final number, her hands shook.• A penalty flag was thrown but picked up after the officials determined the contact was incidental.• But they can not seem to pick up after their dogs.• In our next issue we will be examining why some people still resist the pressure to pick up after their dogs.• I've been picking up after them all night and all morning. 26 pick up on something phrasal verbphr v a) NOTICEto notice something about the way someone is behaving or feeling, even though they are trying not to show it 注意到〔别人试图隐藏的事物〕 Children pick up on our worries and anxieties. 孩子们觉察到了我们的不安和焦虑。 b) DISCUSSto return to a point or an idea that has been mentioned and discuss it more 回过头来进一步讨论〔已被提到的论点或观点〕 I’d like to pick up on a point that Steven made earlier. 我想再提一提史蒂文先前说过的一点。 c) pick somebody up on somethingCRITICIZE to criticize someone slightly for something they have said 批评[指责]某人说过的话 I knew he was lying and I should have picked him up on it. 我知道他在撒谎,我应该说他两句的。 Examples from the Corpus pick up on • It was downright sinister and the fact that Glyn had picked up on her uneasy feelings left her more uneasy still.• I hadn't picked up on it, and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me.• The girls pick up on the excitement of the crowd and come out strong.• It is important that a manager pick up on the good particularly and show them how to use it.• Carolyn was picking up on the movements of the three women, which had seemed so mysteriously random at first.• There's a lot of frequencies you can't pick up on the record listening through small speakers.• Unfortunately, children pick up on this response. pick somebody up on something• When they went off the air in the evening, I picked it up on my program.• We used to keep it round Nezzer Eyres's and pick it up on Sundays when we wanted it.• A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday.• He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action. Examples from the Corpus pick• I'll pick a few flowers to take to mum's.• The class was divided into four teams, and each group was asked to pick a leader.• Pick a number from one to five.• Do you think he might pick another woman for the Supreme Court?• Migrant workers come to the orchard each autumn to pick apples.• Joe picked Steve and Terry to be on his team.• In the end, Katie picked the blue dress.• Let me pick the movie tonight - I don't want to see another comedy.• Laura's out in the garden picking tomatoes.• Republicans seized control of both houses of Congress, picking up a whopping 117 House seats along the way.• By Oscar night, Taylor had recovered sufficiently to pick up hers for Butterfield 8.• Vietcong couriers slipped into Saigon to pick up his reports, which he wrote in invisible ink made from starch.• Maybe he used a towel to pick up the iron teakettle.• It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.• After two or three days I started picking up. pick the team• He was not attempting to pick the team for tonight's First Division match against Wimbledon. freshly picked• These lilacs are freshly picked.• Herbs are at their best when freshly picked.• Sure enough, inside we found some beautiful zucchini and tomatoes, freshly picked from a nearby garden.• A garland of freshly picked marigolds hung from the mirror.• She was bending over a basket of freshly picked marrow flowers, arranging them to her satisfaction.• Live food Try to eat freshly picked or freshly killed foods. pick something out of something• I bet you he can pick him out of a crowd of people.• She picked Graham out of a police lineup after he was arrested for unrelated crimes.• They had grown up and gone to work picking stump out of every other burned off field in this Florida county.• Ralph picked a pencil out of her pencil cup.• It must be marvelous to just belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.• She unerringly picks us out of the crowd in the cavernous old building.• Chaucer and Laurence Sterne picked plums out of theirs. , Music Toolspick2 ●○○ noun 1 [uncountableU]CHOOSE if you can have your pick or take your pick of different things, you can choose which one you want 挑选,选择 Have a look at the menu and take your pick. 看看菜单再作选择吧。 He knew he could take his pick of any of the girls in the office. 他知道自己可以挑办公室里任何一个姑娘。 Sarah could have her pick of any university in the country. 萨拉可以选择国内任何一所大学。 have/get first pick (of something) She always gets first pick of the videos. 她总是第一个挑录像带。 2 the pick of something informalBEST the best things in a group 某物中的精华[最好的东西] In tonight’s programme we’ll be discussing the pick of this month’s new movies. 在今晚的节目中我们将讨论本月的最佳新片。 There were fifteen candidates for the job, and he was the pick of the bunch (=the best one). 这个职位有15名候选人,他是其中的最佳人选。 Examples from the Corpus the pick of something• No question, though, about the pick of probably the largest and choicest crop of books in the game's history.• And the good news is you can download the pick of the crop, for free.• As the Helliwell sisters always had the pick of the best jobs, they of course lived there while working in London.• Others however, may be losing out because the online account they chose is no longer the pick of the bunch.• This site provides information on the pick of the current deals and a mortgage search facility.• It's the pick of this month's new movies.• It's the pick of the ties although the game between holders East Belfast and Killyleagh will attract a lot of attention.• Joey Benjamin was the pick of the Surrey bowlers with four for 79 off 29 overs.• Bob Matthews was the pick of the Talybont bowlers taking 1-12 while John Wheeler grabbed 2-47. 3 [countableC] informalCHOOSE your pick is the person or thing that you have chosen from a group 挑选出来的人[物] SYN choice There are a lot of good horses in the race, but Archimedes would be my pick. 比赛中有很多好马,不过我最看好阿基米德。 4. [countableC]TZ a pickaxe 镐,鹤嘴锄 5. [countableC] informalAPM a small flat object that you use for pulling at the strings of a musical instrument such as a guitar 〔拨吉他等弦乐器用的〕拨片,拨子 SYN plectrum → ice pickExamples from the Corpus pick• Selkirk and four soldiers, well-armed, carrying picks and shovels, were waiting rather self-consciously near the main gate.• Mutombo, the fourth pick in the NBA draft, is averaging 19 points a game.• Last season, his picks resulted in losses of $ 2,370.• Jacksonville took Hardy with the second pick, leaving Rice.• Instead, they still have the same seven picks, including the third overall and one in each round.• I faxed each of them the list of no-load stocks and asked for their picks.• They were armed with pick axe handles and staves. take ... pick• Take your pick from bright colours, bold patterns or classic neutrals Dramatic colours look great with neutral, slimline pants.• Berlin took their pick, then allowed Sotheby's to sell what was left over.• There are all those extra rooms, she can take her pick.• He also planned to recommend not one, but three solid pastoral candidates of whom the cardinal could take his pick.• Big and bold or overdone, take your pick.• Nemo or Popeye, take your pick.• Savers take their pick and pay for the arrangements they want in today's prices.• No, they take their pick. From Longman Business Dictionary pickpick /pɪk/ verb → pick up (1200-1300) Partly from unrecorded Old English pician; partly from Old French piquer “to prick” pick2 1. (1500-1600) → PICK1 2. (1300-1400) pike →n GRAMMAR1 →PHRASAL VERBS1pick2 noun |
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