phrasal verbphr vEXAMINEto 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 kitchenpicking 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 overdiscarded fruits and vegetablesevenings under ParkAvenueBridge, cooking over Sterno stoves.• That's if the lawyers left her anything after they'd picked over the bones.• Crows were busypicking over the remains of a thousand improvisedpicnics.