unpick

verb

1. 拆去…的缝线；拆（编织物）的针脚
   to take out stitches from a piece of sewing or knitting

1. VERB 拆（线）；拆开, 拆散
   If you unpick a piece of sewing, you remove the stitches from it.
   1. You can always unpick the hems on the dungarees if you don't like them.
      如果你不喜欢，你可以把工作服的褶边拆掉。
2. VERB 找…的毛病;给…挑刺
   If someone unpicks a plan or policy, they disagree with it and examine it thoroughly in order to find any mistakes that they can use to defeat it.
   1. A statesman who ought to know better wants to unpick last year's reform of Europe's common agricultural policy.
      一个不甚了解情况的政客想对去年欧洲普遍的农业政策改革指手画脚。

1. You can always unpick the hems on the dungarees if you don't like them.
   如果你不喜欢，你可以把工作服的褶边拆掉。
2. A statesman who ought to know better wants to unpick last year's reform of Europe's common agricultural policy.
   一个不甚了解情况的政客想对去年欧洲普遍的农业政策改革指手画脚。
3. But other stances, notably on military spending, would be harder to unpick.
   其他方面则很难找到突破口，尤其是在军事开支方面。
4. Clearly, a lot more work is needed to unpick the details.
   很明显，需要更多的研究来剖析每个细节。
5. US sanctions are more complex and will take time to unpick.
   美国的制裁更为复杂，将需要时间撤消。
6. She had sewn the wrong bits of material together and so had to unpick the stitches and start again.
   她错缝了布料，因此她只能拆了针脚重新缝。
7. Tightening regulation has started to unpick elements of the pre-crunch model.
   监管收紧也开始消除危机前银行业模式的一些元素。
8. In a three-minute news story there's little time to unpick complex scientific debates.
   在一个3分钟的新闻报道中，几乎没有时间解析复杂的科学争论。
9. Mr Ma, the beneficiary of that fall from grace, has moved swiftly to unpick his predecessor's separatist handiwork. Taiwan has cooled the independence rhetoric and established direct flights and shipping routes across the 110-mile-wide Taiwan Strait.
   马英九是陈水扁丧失名誉的受益者，他迅速采取行动，逆转其前任的分裂主义动作。台湾降低了独立言论的分贝，在110英里宽的台湾海峡两岸开通了直飞和直航。
10. Ms Merkel is willing to compromise but is expected to draw the line at allowing Mr Cameron to unpick existing EU treaties; she fears that could lead to other countries negotiating to rip up the rules of the single market.
    默克尔愿意做出让步，但人们预计，在她的底线范围内是不会允许卡梅伦破坏现有欧盟条约的，她担心这可能导致其他国家借助谈判破坏单一市场的规则。

verb

1. undo (the stitches) of (a piece of sewing)

2. become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
   1. unravel the thread

   Synonym:    unravelunknotunscrambleuntangle