1. pick up : 捡起;
及物动词
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购物
轮班
付账
1. 挑选;选择
If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one.
2. 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.
3. 采;摘
When you pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, you break them off the plant or tree and collect them.
4. 拿取;挪移
If you pick something from a place, you remove it from there with your fingers or your hand.
5. 抠(鼻);剔(牙)
If you pick your nose or teeth, you remove substances from inside your nose or between your teeth.
6. 寻找…的口实;寻(衅);找(碴儿)
If you pick a fight or quarrel with someone, you deliberately cause one.
7. 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.
8. 同 pickaxe
A pick is the same as a pickaxe .
9. see also: hand-pick;ice pick
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. to pick someone's brains - see brain
to pick holes in something - see hole
to pick someone's pocket - see pocket
15. 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.
16. 加速
When a vehicle picks up speed, it begins to move more quickly.
1. the act of choosing or selecting
e.g. your choice of colors was unfortunate
you can take your pick
Synonym: choiceselectionoption
2. a basketball maneuver
obstructing an opponent with one's body
e.g. he was called for setting an illegal pick
3. a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
e.g. they used picks and sledges to break the rocks
4. a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
e.g. he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks
5. a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
6. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
7. the person or thing chosen or selected
e.g. he was my pick for mayor
8. the best people or things in a group
e.g. the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War
Synonym: cream
9. the quantity of a crop that is harvested
e.g. he sent the first picking of berries to the market
it was the biggest peach pick in years
Synonym: picking