pick

verb

1. 选择；挑选
   to choose sb/sth from a group of people or things
   1. Pick a number from one to twenty.
      从一至二十中挑选一个数。
   2. She picked the best cake for herself.
      她为自己挑了一块最好的蛋糕。
   3. He picked his words carefully.
      他用词细心谨慎。
   4. Have I picked a bad time to talk to you?
      我是不是挑了个不恰当的时间跟你谈话？
   5. He has been picked to play in this week's game.
      他已入选参加本周的比赛。
2. 采；摘
   to take flowers, fruit, etc. from the plant or the tree where they are growing
   1. to pick grapes
      摘葡萄
   2. flowers freshly picked from the garden
      刚从花园采的鲜花
   3. to go blackberry picking
      去采黑莓
3. （用手指）摘掉，剔除，掐去
   to pull or remove sth or small pieces of sth from sth else, especially with your fingers
4. （用手指）摘掉，剔除，掐去
   to pull or remove sth or small pieces of sth from sth else, especially with your fingers

noun

1. 挑选；选择
   an act of choosing sth
   1. Take your pick (= choose) .
      自己选吧。
   2. The winner gets first pick of the prizes.
      获胜者可先挑奖品。
2. 选中的人（或物）
   a person or thing that is chosen
   1. She was his pick for best actress.
      她是他选中的最佳女演员。
3. 精品；精华；最好的东西
   the best thing or things in a group
4. 精品；精华；最好的东西
   the best thing or things in a group
5. 精品；精华；最好的东西
   the best thing or things in a group

1. VERB 挑选；选择
   If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one.
   1. Mr Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in London...
      诺埃尔先生为伦敦的6个销售职位选出了10人进行面试。
   2. I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate.
      我特意选了一个热带气候的城市。
2. N-SING 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.
   1. The boys here are the pick of the under-15 cricketers in the country...
      这儿的男孩是全国15岁以下板球手中的佼佼者。
   2. We had the pick of suits from the shop.
      我们买了店里最好的套装。
3. VERB 采；摘
   When you pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, you break them off the plant or tree and collect them.
   1. She used to pick flowers in the Cromwell Road...
      她过去常到克伦威尔路采花。
   2. He helps his mother pick fruit.
      他帮母亲摘果子。
4. VERB 拿取；挪移
   If you pick something from a place, you remove it from there with your fingers or your hand.
   1. He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate...
      他拿起腿上的餐巾，放在盘子旁边。
   2. He picked the telephone off the wall bracket.
      他从墙上的固定托架上摘下电话。
5. VERB 抠（鼻）；剔（牙）
   If you pick your nose or teeth, you remove substances from inside your nose or between your teeth.
   1. Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear...
      埃德加，不要抠鼻子，宝贝儿。
   2. He had just had a meal and was picking his teeth after it.
      他刚吃完饭，正在剔牙。
6. VERB 寻找…的口实；寻（衅）；找（碴儿）
   If you pick a fight or quarrel with someone, you deliberately cause one.
   1. He picked a fight with a waiter and landed in jail...
      他找碴儿跟服务生打了一架，最后进了监狱。
   2. He was clearly in a mood to pick a quarrel with anybody.
      他现在的心情明显是逮谁就想跟谁吵。
7. VERB 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.
   1. He picked each lock deftly, and rifled the papers within each drawer.
      他熟练地撬开每一把锁，把每个抽屉里的文件都偷走了。
8. 同 pickaxe
   A pick is the same as a pickaxe .
9. See also: hand-pick ice pick
10. PHRASE 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.
    1. As a vocational teacher I could pretty much pick and choose my work...
       作为一名职业教师，我几乎可以随意挑拣自己的工作。
    2. We, the patients, cannot pick and choose our doctors.
       我们患者不能对医生挑挑拣拣。
11. PHRASE 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.
    1. Here is an actress who could have her pick of any part...
       这是一个角色任她挑选的女演员。
    2. Klein could have had his pick of the world's top models.
       克莱恩本可以从世界顶尖模特中想选谁就选谁。
12. PHRASE 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.
    1. Accountants can take their pick of company cars...
       会计师可以任选配备的公车。
    2. Take your pick from ten luxury hotels...
       10家豪华宾馆任你选择。
    3. See our selection of autumn favourites and take your pick.
       看看我们的秋季精选，然后挑出你想要的。
13. PHRASE 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.
    1. The girls were afraid of snakes and picked their way along with extreme caution...
       女孩们害怕蛇，于是谨小慎微地择路而行。
    2. I moved away from the shack and picked my way among the rubble.
       我离开木屋，小心地走在瓦砾间。
14. to pick someone's brains → see: brain
15. PHRASE 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.
    1. Do we try and prevent problems or do we try and pick up the pieces afterwards?...
       我们是想要防患未然呢，还是想要事后收拾残局？
    2. She died, and somehow I never picked up the pieces and started again.
       她死后我竟一蹶不振，无法重新来过。
16. PHRASE 加速
    When a vehicle picks up speed, it begins to move more quickly.
    1. Brian pulled away slowly, but picked up speed.
       布赖恩慢慢开动汽车，但很快就加速了。

1. How dare you pick up the phone and listen in on my conversations!
   你竟敢拿起电话偷听我的谈话！
2. It's an absolutely instinctive reaction — if a child falls you pick it up
   这完全是本能的反应——如果一个孩子摔倒了你会把他扶起来。
3. Mr Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in London
   诺埃尔先生为伦敦的6个销售职位选出了10人进行面试。
4. I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate.
   我特意选了一个热带气候的城市。
5. We had the pick of suits from the shop.
   我们买了店里最好的套装。
6. She used to pick flowers in the Cromwell Road
   她过去常到克伦威尔路采花。
7. He helps his mother pick fruit.
   他帮母亲摘果子。
8. He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate
   他拿起腿上的餐巾，放在盘子旁边。
9. He picked the telephone off the wall bracket.
   他从墙上的固定托架上摘下电话。
10. Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear
    埃德加，不要抠鼻子，宝贝儿。
11. He had just had a meal and was picking his teeth after it.
    他刚吃完饭，正在剔牙。
12. He picked a fight with a waiter and landed in jail
    他找碴儿跟服务生打了一架，最后进了监狱。
13. He was clearly in a mood to pick a quarrel with anybody.
    他现在的心情明显是逮谁就想跟谁吵。
14. He picked each lock deftly, and rifled the papers within each drawer.
    他熟练地撬开每一把锁，把每个抽屉里的文件都偷走了。
15. As a vocational teacher I could pretty much pick and choose my work
    作为一名职业教师，我几乎可以随意挑拣自己的工作。
16. We, the patients, cannot pick and choose our doctors.
    我们患者不能对医生挑挑拣拣。
17. Here is an actress who could have her pick of any part
    这是一个角色任她挑选的女演员。
18. Klein could have had his pick of the world's top models.
    克莱恩本可以从世界顶尖模特中想选谁就选谁。
19. Accountants can take their pick of company cars
    会计师可以任选配备的公车。
20. See our selection of autumn favourites and take your pick.
    看看我们的秋季精选，然后挑出你想要的。
21. I moved away from the shack and picked my way among the rubble.
    我离开木屋，小心地走在瓦砾间。
22. Do we try and prevent problems or do we try and pick up the pieces afterwards?
    我们是想要防患未然呢，还是想要事后收拾残局？
23. She died, and somehow I never picked up the pieces and started again.
    她死后我竟一蹶不振，无法重新来过。
24. Brian pulled away slowly, but picked up speed.
    布赖恩慢慢开动汽车，但很快就加速了。
25. When you have made up your mind, pick on a day when you will not be under much stress
    你什么时候下决心了，就挑一个压力不大的日子。
26. Can I just pick up that gentleman's point?
    我能接着那位先生的意思往下说吗？
27. I'll pick up on what I said a couple of minutes ago.
    我将回到几分钟前我说过的内容。
28. Don't pick and choose, but take what's given to you.
    不要挑三拣四的，给什么就拿什么吧。

pick at sth

1. 磨蹭着吃；（因为不饿而）小口吃
   to eat food slowly, taking small amounts or bites because you are not hungry
   1. Pick a number from one to twenty.
      从一至二十中挑选一个数。
   2. She picked the best cake for herself.
      她为自己挑了一块最好的蛋糕。
   3. He picked his words carefully.
      他用词细心谨慎。
   4. Have I picked a bad time to talk to you?
      我是不是挑了个不恰当的时间跟你谈话？
   5. He has been picked to play in this week's game.
      他已入选参加本周的比赛。
2. （反复地）揪，扯
   to pull or touch sth several times
   1. to pick grapes
      摘葡萄
   2. flowers freshly picked from the garden
      刚从花园采的鲜花
   3. to go blackberry picking
      去采黑莓

pick sb↔off

1. 选择（目标）射击
   to aim carefully at a person, an animal or an aircraft, especially one of a group, and then shoot them

pick sth↔off

1. 去除；剪除
   to remove sth from sth such as a tree, a plant, etc.
   1. Take your pick (= choose) .
      自己选吧。
   2. The winner gets first pick of the prizes.
      获胜者可先挑奖品。

pick on sb/sth

1. （跟某人）闹别扭；故意刁难挑剔
   to treat sb unfairly, by blaming, criticizing or punishing them
2. 挑选；选中
   to choose sb/sth

pick sb/sth↔out

1. 精心挑选
   to choose sb/sth carefully from a group of people or things
2. 认出来；辨别出
   to recognize sb/sth from among other people or things

pick sth↔out

1. （不用乐谱）慢慢地弹奏（乐曲）
   to play a tune on a musical instrument slowly without using written music
2. （经仔细研究）找出，认识到
   to discover or recognize sth after careful study
3. 使显著；使容易看见（或听见）
   to make sth easy to see or hear

pick sth↔over

pick through sth

1. 用心挑选；筛选
   to examine a group of things carefully, especially to choose the ones you want

pick up

1. 改善；好转；增强
   to get better, stronger, etc.; to improve
2. 重新开始；继续
   to start again; to continue
3. （为某人）收拾，整理
   to put things away and make things neat, especially for sb else

pick up

pick sth up

1. 接电话
   to answer a phone

pick sb↔up

1. （开车）接人
   to go somewhere in your car and collect sb who is waiting for you
2. 让人乘车；搭载
   to allow sb to get into your vehicle and take them somewhere
3. （从海里或危险处）营救，搭救
   to rescue sb from the sea or from a dangerous place, especially one that is difficult to reach
4. （猥亵地与生人）搭讪，勾搭
   to start talking to sb you do not know because you want to have a sexual relationship with them
5. 逮捕；抓捕
   to arrest sb
6. 使人觉得舒服；提神
   to make sb feel better

pick sb/sth↔up

1. 拿起；举起；提起
   to take hold of sb/sth and lift them/it up
2. 接收（信号、声音、图像等）
   to receive an electronic signal, sound or picture

pick sth↔up

1. （偶然）得到，听到，学会
   to get information or a skill by chance rather than by making a deliberate effort
2. 辨认；识别出
   to identify or recognize sth
3. 取回；收集
   to collect sth from a place
4. （碰巧或廉价地）买到
   to buy sth, especially cheaply or by chance
5. 得；感染；得到
   to get or obtain sth
6. 找到；跟踪；追寻
   to find and follow a route
7. 回到（本题）；恢复原状
   to return to an earlier subject or situation in order to continue it
8. 察觉；发现；注意到
   to notice sth that is not very obvious; to see sth that you are looking for
9. 收拾；整理
   to put things away neatly
10. 收拾房间
    to put things away and make a room neat

pick up on sth

1. 领略；意会；意识到
   to notice sth and perhaps react to it
2. 回到（某问题等）；重提（要点等）
   to return to a point that has already been mentioned or discussed

pick sb up on sth

1. 提到某人的错误；挑毛病；算旧账
   to mention sth that sb has said or done that you think is wrong

pick yourself up

1. （跌倒后）站起来
   to stand up again after you have fallen

v.

pick and choose

• 挑拣；精挑细选
  to choose only those things that you like or want very much
  1. You have to take any job you can get─you can't pick and choose.
     你只能有什么工作就干什么——你不能挑三拣四了。

pick sb's brains

• 讨教；请教；不断地问（以向别人学习）
  to ask sb a lot of questions about sth because they know more about the subject than you do

pick a fight/quarrel (with sb)

• 找碴儿；找麻烦；挑衅
  to deliberately start a fight or an argument with sb

pick holes in sth

• 挑刺儿；挑毛病；找漏洞
  to find the weak points in sth such as a plan, suggestion, etc.
  1. It was easy to pick holes in his arguments.
     找他论据中的漏洞很容易。

pick a lock

• （用铁丝等）捅开锁
  to open a lock without a key, using sth such as a piece of wire

pick sb's pocket

• 扒窃；掏包儿
  to steal sth from sb's pocket without them noticing

pick up the bill, tab, etc. (for sth)

• 付账
  to pay for sth
  1. The company picked up the tab for his hotel room.
     公司为他付旅馆费。
  2. The government will continue to pick up college fees for some students.
     政府将继续替一些学生缴纳学费。

pick up the pieces

• （使）恢复；补救；收拾残局
  to return or to help sb return to a normal situation, particularly after a shock or a disaster
  1. You cannot live your children's lives for them; you can only be there to pick up the pieces when things go wrong.
     你不能替孩子过活，只能在出现问题时帮忙解决。

pick up speed

• 加速
  to go faster

pick up the threads

• 恢复原状
  to return to an earlier situation or way of life after an interruption

pick your way (across, along, among, over, through sth)

• 择路而行；小心看着路行走
  to walk carefully, choosing the safest, driest, etc. place to put your feet
  1. She picked her way delicately over the rough ground.
     她小心翼翼地在高低不平的地面上行走。

pick a winner

• 认定胜利者（如赛马中）
  to choose a horse, etc. that you think is most likely to win a race
• 挑选得当；选得很准
  to make a very good choice

have a bone to pick with sb

• 对某人生气，想与之解决；有理由反对（或恼恨）某人
  to be angry with sb about sth and want to discuss it with them

pick/pull/tear sb/sth to pieces/shreds

• 严厉斥责；痛斥；批评得体无完肤
  to criticize sb, or their work or ideas, very severely

pick/pull/tear sb/sth to pieces/shreds

• 把某人（或其作品、观点等）批驳得体无完肤
  to criticize sb, or their work or ideas, very severely

noun

1. the act of choosing or selecting
   1. your choice of colors was unfortunate
   2. you can take your pick

   Synonym:    choiceselectionoption

2. a basketball maneuver
   1. 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
   1. they used picks and sledges to break the rocks

   Synonym:    pickaxpickaxe

4. a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
   1. 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

   Synonym:    plectrumplectron

6. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

   Synonym:    woofweftfilling

7. the person or thing chosen or selected
   1. he was my pick for mayor

   Synonym:    choiceselection

8. the best people or things in a group
   1. the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War

   Synonym:    cream

9. the quantity of a crop that is harvested
   1. he sent the first picking of berries to the market
   2. it was the biggest peach pick in years

   Synonym:    picking

verb

1. remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
   1. Clean the turkey

   Synonym:    clean

2. remove in small bits
   1. pick meat from a bone

3. select carefully from a group
   1. She finally picked her successor
   2. He picked his way carefully

4. harass with constant criticism
   1. Don't always pick on your little brother

   Synonym:    blamefind fault

5. eat intermittently
   1. He pieced at the sandwich all morning
   2. She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles

   Synonym:    nibblepiece

6. hit lightly with a picking motion

   Synonym:    peckbeak

7. look for and gather
   1. pick mushrooms
   2. pick flowers

   Synonym:    pluckcull

8. attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
   1. Pick open the ice

   Synonym:    break up

9. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
   1. he plucked the strings of his mandolin

   Synonym:    pluckplunk

10. provoke
    1. pick a fight or a quarrel

11. pay for something
    1. pick up the tab
    2. pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages
    3. foot the bill

    Synonym:    foot

12. pilfer or rob
    1. pick pockets