MONEYmoney or profits that you can get easily from a situation 容易得来的钱[利润]
There were rich pickings (=a lot of money) to be had from the stock market.
股市里大有赚头。
There are easy pickings for thieves at these big outdoor concerts.
在这些大型户外音乐会上窃贼很容易得手。
slim/lean/meagre pickings
Companies are put off investing in poor areas because of the meagre pickings to be had.
因为无利可图,各公司都推迟了在贫困地区的投资。
Examples from the Corpus
pickings• Imagine for a moment what easypickings a hugeshoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.• Soaringinflationmeansleanpickings for the majority.• Meager pickings in the industry have provided the back-drop to increasing consolidation.• Or life may be regarded as a battlefieldfit for conquerors, with richpickings for the strong.• They have destroyed the city on us and become rich on the pickings.• What a life, what fun, what pickings were there here!
rich pickings• Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expectedrich pickings.• So - if only they can overcome the obviousdifficulties, inter-tidal creatures find rich pickings.• A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.• It would have yielded particularly rich pickings.• Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.