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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- pick [pɪk] [pɪk]
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1.
vt.
（用鹤嘴锄等）凿；掘；挖
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2.
vt.
用尖状物凿成洞
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3.
vt.
（用手指或尖状物）挖；掏；挖出
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4.
vt.
剔（牙齿等）
- 5. vt. （用手指）采；摘（尤指采集花朵、浆果等）
- 6. vt. 选择；挑选
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7.
vt.
清除；具体指拔禽毛
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8.
vt.
清除；具体指（从树上）摘果实
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9.
vt.
（鸟类）啄食
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10.
vt.
少量地（或挑精拣肥地）吃
- Valerie only picked at her plate.
- 瓦莱丽只吃了几口盘里的食物。
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11.
vt.
撕开；扯开（纤维等）
- 12. vt. 找理由或寻找机会吵架
- 13. vt. 找碴儿
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14.
vt.
[American English]
拨琴弦
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15.
vt.
[American English]
弹（吉他等）弦乐器
- He was singing the song and picking the guitar.
- 他抱着吉他，边弹边唱。
- 16. vt. 撬锁（尤指偷窃采用的方法）
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17.
vt.
扒窃（别人衣袋中的）东西
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18.
vi.
（用鹤嘴锄等）凿；掘；挖
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19.
vi.
采集；收
- 20. vi. （被）采摘
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21.
vi.
少量地（或挑精拣肥地）吃
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22.
vi.
偷窃；扒窃
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23.
vi.
选择；挑选（尤指精细挑选）
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24.
vi.
[American English]
弹弦乐器
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25.
noun
凿；挖；掘
- 26. noun 选择；选择权
- 27. noun （人或物的）精华；最好的部分
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28.
noun
一次采摘的谷物
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1.
vt.
（用鹤嘴锄等）凿；掘；挖
Collins English-English Dictionary
- pick [pɪk]
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1.
vb
to choose (something) deliberately or carefully, from or as if from a group or number; select
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2.
vb
to pluck or gather (fruit, berries, or crops) from (a tree, bush, field, etc)
- to pick hops
- to pick a whole bush
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3.
vt.
[tr]
to clean or prepare (fruit, poultry, etc) by removing the indigestible parts
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4.
vt.
[tr]
to remove loose particles from (the teeth, the nose, etc)
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5.
vt.
(esp of birds) to nibble or gather (corn, etc)
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6.
vt.
[
when intr,foll by at] to nibble (at) fussily or without appetite -
7.
vt.
to separate (strands, fibres, etc), as in weaving
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8.
vt.
[tr]
to provoke (an argument, fight, etc) deliberately
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9.
vt.
[tr]
to steal (money or valuables) from (a person's pocket)
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10.
vt.
[tr]
to open (a lock) with an instrument other than a key
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11.
vt.
to pluck the strings of (a guitar, banjo, etc)
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12.
vt.
[tr]
to make (one's way) carefully on foot
- they picked their way through the rubble
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13.
n
freedom or right of selection (esp in the phrase take one's pick)
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14.
n
a person, thing, etc, that is chosen first or preferred
- the pick of the bunch
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15.
n
the act of picking
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16.
n
the amount of a crop picked at one period or from one area
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17.
n
[printing]
a speck of dirt or paper fibre or a blob of ink on the surface of set type or a printing plate
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18.
n
See also pick at pick off pick on pick out pick-up
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19.
n
[Etymology]
C15: from earlier piken to pick, influenced by French piquer to pierce; compare Middle Low German picken, Dutch pikken
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1.
vb
to choose (something) deliberately or carefully, from or as if from a group or number; select
- pick [pɪk]
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1.
n
a tool with a handle carrying a long steel head curved and tapering to a point at one or both ends, used for loosening soil, breaking rocks, etc
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2.
n
any of various tools used for picking, such as an ice pick or toothpick
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3.
n
a plectrum
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4.
vt.
[tr]
to pierce, dig, or break up (a hard surface) with a pick
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5.
vt.
[tr]
to form (a hole) in this way
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6.
vt.
[Etymology]
C14: perhaps variant of
pike 2
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1.
n
a tool with a handle carrying a long steel head curved and tapering to a point at one or both ends, used for loosening soil, breaking rocks, etc
- pick [pɪk]
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1.
vt.
[tr]
to cast (a shuttle)
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2.
n
one casting of a shuttle
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3.
n
a weft or filling thread
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4.
n
[Etymology]
C14: variant of
pitch 1
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1.
vt.
[tr]
to cast (a shuttle)
Examples
- pick an apple from the tree
- 从树上摘一个苹果 → an
- pick out
- 选出 → out
- to pick flaws
- 找碴儿 → pick
- grapes pick easily
- 葡萄容易采摘 → pick
- A taxi cruises to pick up passengers.
- 出租汽车在街上转圈兜客。 → cruise
- I'll pick you up at the airport tomorrow afternoon at 2.
- 明天下午两点我会开车到机场接你。 → airport
- I'll pick you up at the airport, at what time does your flight arrive?
- 我会开车去机场接你，你的航班什么时候到？ → arrive
- I anxiously packed my things up while waiting to pick up my children.
- 我一边等着去接孩子，一边焦急地收拾东西。
- One of our favorite things to do as children was to roll snowballs down hills to see how much speed they could pick up.
- 我们小时候最喜欢做的事情就是滚雪球下山，并看它能滚多快。 → roll
- The tide came in very quickly that we couldn't pick our clothes.
- 潮水涨得很快，我们都来不及拿衣服了。
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