picks

英 [pɪks]

美 [pɪks]

v.  选择; 挑选; 采; 摘; (用手指)摘掉，剔除，掐去
n.  挑选; 选择; 选中的人(或物); 精品; 精华; 最好的东西
pick的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 挑选；选择
  If youpicka 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。
• N-SING 精华；精品；精英
  You can refer to the best things or people in a particular group asthe pick ofthat 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。
• VERB 采；摘
  When youpickflowers, 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。
• VERB 拿取；挪移
  If youpicksomething 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。
• VERB 抠（鼻）；剔（牙）
  If youpickyournoseorteeth, 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。
• VERB 寻找…的口实；寻（衅）；找（碴儿）
  If youpicka fight or quarrelwithsomeone, 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。
• VERB 撬开（锁）；扒窃…中的东西
  If someone such as a thiefpicksa 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。
• 同 pickaxe
  Apickis the same as apickaxe.
• See also:hand-pickice pick
• PHRASE 挑挑拣拣；挑三拣四；挑剔
  If youpick 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。
• PHRASE 可从…中任意挑选
  If youhaveyourpick ofa 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。
• PHRASE 任意挑选
  If you are told totakeyourpick, 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。
• PHRASE 择路而行；小心行路
  If youpickyourwayacross 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。
• topicksomeone'sbrains→ see:brain
• PHRASE 收拾残局；努力恢复正常
  When youpick up the piecesafter 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。
• PHRASE 加速
  When a vehiclepicks 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。

双语例句

• If this guy picks up the phone, I want him talking to me.
  他若拿起电话，我要他跟我谈。
• I'm fed up with that guy who always picks on other female classmates.
  我受够了那个家伙，他总是找其他女同学的麻烦。
• She turns him around. He walks away, picks up toy cat.
  她让他转过身去。他走开了，拣起一个玩具猫。
• When they are mature, a small boy picks it and opens it.
  当它们成熟了的时候，一个小男孩捡到了它们。
• In Laurie's dormitory, the telephone rings. Laurie picks up the receiver.
  在劳丽的宿舍，电话响了，劳丽拿起了话筒。
• He's loving and thoughtful and sexy and he picks up his socks and puts down the toilet seat.
  他忠诚、体贴、性感，袜子掉在地上了知道捡起来，马桶座圈用完了知道放下去。
• Zlatan is standing a bit by himself, picks up his cell phone and calls.
  此时兹拉坦的手机响了，他稍微站远了点去接电话。
• His picks rose 6.7%.
  其投资组合上涨了6.7%。
• What business has a pick and a shovel here? Formerly the coal was dug with picks and spades.
  这里要锹和镐头干什么？从前用镐和铁锹采煤。
• I choose the red mullet as a main course, while she picks sea bass.
  我点的主菜是红鲻鱼，她则要了海鲈鱼。