a)EATto eat only small amounts of food because you do not feel hungry or do not like the food 〔因不餓或不喜歡而〕一點一點地吃,挑挑揀揀地吃
Paige could only pick at her meal, forcing down a mouthful or two.
佩奇只能勉爲其難地吃着飯,強迫自己咽下一兩口。
b)TOUCHto touch something many times with your fingers, pulling it slightly 〔反複地〕拉扯
She was picking at her skirt.
她不停地拉扯自己的裙子。
Examples from the Corpus
pick at • If not, she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plantleafhoping he will go away.• Sometimes she picks at her fingers.• At dinnerNorm had seconds of everything, but Benjy only picked at his food.• I pictured myself picking at least three hundred pounds a day and took the job.• A glow that came down over the trees, and picked at the burn, and spilled through my bedroomwindow.• Check for birdspicking at the water.• I started to pick at them.• Mushroompicking at Wilgro Mushrooms at Wath, near Ripon.