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pick1 /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.

罗素讲得很慢，措辞谨慎。

→ picked► see thesaurus at choose

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。

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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！

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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

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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 VERBS

21 pick somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v

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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.

24 pick up phrasal verbphr v

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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.

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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.

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