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pick1 /pɪk/ S1 W1 verb [transitiveT] → pic

1 choose STH 選擇某物CHOOSE to choose a person or thing, for example because they are the best or most suitable 挑選；選擇

Students have to pick three courses from a list of 15.

學生必須從15門課中選修3門。

I don’t know which colour to pick.

我不知道要選哪個顔色。

Who’s going to pick the team for the match on Saturday?

誰將爲星期六的比賽挑選隊員？

pick somebody/something for something

I wasn’t picked for the hockey team.

我沒被選進曲棍球隊。

pick somebody/something as something

The hotel was picked as the best small hotel in the area.

那家賓館被選爲那個地區的最佳小型賓館。

pick somebody to do something

He was picked to run in the 100 metres.

他被選中參加100米賽跑。

Russell spoke slowly, picking his words (=choosing what to say) very carefully.

羅素講得很慢，措辭謹慎。

→ picked► see thesaurus at choose

2 flowers/fruit etc 花/水果等PULL to remove a flower, fruit, nut etc from a plant or tree 采，摘〔花、果等〕

We picked some blackberries to eat on the way.

途中我們采了一些黑莓吃。

Amy picked a small bunch of wild flowers.

埃米采了一小把野花。

a dish of freshly picked peas

一盤新摘的豌豆

3 remove STH 去除某物 [always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]REMOVE to remove something carefully from a place, especially something small 挖，剔

pick something from something

Ahmed picked the melon pips from his teeth.

艾哈邁德剔去牙縫裏的瓜籽。

pick something off (something)

She was nervously picking bits of fluff off her sweater.

她緊張地擇着毛衣上的小絨毛。

pick something out of something

The goalkeeper spent a lot of his time picking the ball out of the back of the net.

守門員很多時間都花在從網窩裏撿球上。

4 pick your way through/across/among etc something MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONCAREFULto walk in a slow careful way, choosing exactly where to put your feet down 小心翼翼地穿過某物

She picked her way between the puddles.

她小心翼翼地繞過一個個水坑。

He picked his way down the narrow staircase.

他小心翼翼地走下狹窄的樓梯。

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pick your way through/across/among etc something• Hardly glancing at Berowne's body Dalgliesh picked his way across the carpet to Harry Mack and squatted beside him.• I picked my way through the noisy tables and went into the Gents.• Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change.• So four of us took our stirrup pumps and torches and picked our way through what was a minefield.• The Arvins came picking their way through rubble, nervous as rats, poking people aside with the barrels of their M-16s.• There was just one lock, and I picked my way through it with ease.• They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.• We pick our way across the cement floor and into the battered portacabin.

5 pick your nose to remove mucus from your nose with your finger 摳鼻子

Don’t pick your nose!

别摳鼻子！

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pick your nose• Davey, don't pick your nose!• Edwina Currie was opening her post, Sir James Spicer was picking his nose.• You have to watch them picking their noses.• Centuries later the light brought two of the shepherds, the tall one picking his nose, and Douthwaite smirking.• Please don't pick your nose at the table.• I just saw a man trying not to pick his nose behind his newspaper!• The young Eric was looking away and picking his nose, looking bored.• He wouldn't be allowed to fart or pick his nose or put his feet on the table.• The toilet stank of urine, and at one point a chef was seen picking his nose while preparing food.

6. pick your teeth DFHBHto remove bits of food from between your teeth with your finger or a small pointed object 剔牙

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pick your teeth• Hands to muzzle, he delicately picked his teeth.• There was a long pause while he picked his teeth and looked down into the seat of his chair.• They were there at lunchtime and still there in the evening, just reading, picking their teeth, and watching.• He was picking his teeth with a match while some one on the phone talked his ear off.• Woolley picked his teeth with a matchstick.• Well, pop a mint, our friends, head for the hills, and pick your teeth with a mesquite twig.• He began to pick his teeth with a toothpick.• The man sawed very quickly with one hand and picked his teeth with the other hand.

7 pick somebody’s brains ASK FOR something/ASK somebody TO DO somethingto ask someone who knows a lot about something for information and advice about it 向某人討教[請教]

Have you got a minute? I need to pick your brains.

您有時間嗎？我要向您請教一下。

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pick somebody’s brains• You know all about tax law - can I pick your brains for a minute?• The workshop is designed so that new managers can pick the brains of managers with more experience.

8 pick a quarrel/fight (with somebody) ARGUEto deliberately start a quarrel or fight with someone （對某人）找碴/（向某人）挑釁

I could see he was trying to pick a fight with me.

我看得出來他是想找碴跟我打架。

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pick a quarrel/fight (with somebody)• We adults do the same: we come home from work and start complaining or picking a fight.• Had never picked a fight in his life.• Barton Lynch's manager had once picked a fight with him.• Anthony Ryan was known in his family as able to pick a fight with his own fingernails.• His favorite thing is to pick fights with me and then leave brown lunch bags on our doorstep.• From a lack of communication, parents are more likely to misunderstand, blame, or pick fights with one another.• But it is hard to pick a quarrel with pasta.• The first thing Vicious does is start picking fights with these guys who are supposed to protect him.

9 pick and choose to choose only the best people or things, or only the ones that you really like 仔細挑選〔最好的或真正喜歡的人或物〕，挑挑揀揀

Come on, you haven’t got time to pick and choose.

快點，沒時間挑挑揀揀了。

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pick and choose• But if you've got your own boat and you're not allergic to work, you can pick and choose.• And so you can pick and choose and try to get the right mixture or balance.• He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.• At Thrush Green she would be able to pick and choose her employers.• Unlike us correspondents, who could pick and choose our risks, they had no choice.• There have been no secret meetings of the Democrat majority to pick and choose personnel.• You can't just pick and choose which laws you're going to follow.• Friendlies are the easiest to start with, as you can pick and choose your opponents.• Remember, however, to pick and choose your wheat berries according to type.

10 pick a lock OPENto use something that is not a key to unlock a door, drawer etc 〔用鑰匙之外的東西〕打開[撬開]鎖

It’s quite easy to pick the lock on a car door.

撬開汽車門鎖輕而易舉。

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pick a lock• Attached to the ring was the piece of wire he used to pick locks.• If I can pick a lock open, I ought to be able to pick it shut.• He had taught them how to pick a lock, steal a car, to shoplift ... The list was endless.

11 pick a hole in something to make a hole in something by pulling it with your fingers 把某物扯出一個洞

He had picked a hole in his jumper.

他把自己的毛衣扯出了一個洞。

12 pick holes in something informal to criticize an idea or a plan by saying what its weak points are 批評某事物；挑某事物的毛病；找某事物的漏洞

It’s easy to pick holes in her argument.

她的論據漏洞百出。

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pick holes in something• I had no trouble picking holes in her theory.

13. pick something clean EATto remove all the meat from a bone when you are eating 把〔骨頭〕啃得一幹二淨

14. pick somebody’s pocket STEALto quietly steal something from someone’s pocket 扒竊 → pickpocket

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pick somebody’s pocket• On our last day in the city, someone picked my pocket.

15. pick a winner informalCHOOSE to choose someone or something very good 挑選得極好

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pick a winner• Experience to date and motivational goal data give us our greatest chance of picking a winner.• A technology Strategy does not mean that a government has to pick winners and losers.• Trust you, Dwight, to pick a winner, and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him!• Softbank claims that it is better at picking winners and that it is buying into a growth industry.• The government hopes to pick a winner in May but the selection could be delayed.

16 pick something to pieces informalCRITICIZE to criticize something very severely and in a very detailed way 把某事物駁得體無完膚

I’m fed up with having my work picked to pieces.

我的工作被貶得一無是處，我受夠了。

17. musical instrument 樂器 American EnglishAmEAPM to play a musical instrument by pulling at its strings with your fingers 彈撥〔琴弦〕；彈奏〔弦樂器〕 SYN pluck

→ have a bone to pick with somebody at bone1(10) PHRASAL VERBS

21 pick somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v

a) choose 挑選CHOOSE to choose someone or something from a group 挑選〔人或物〕

She picked out a navy blue dress.

她挑中一條海軍藍的連衣裙。

His story was picked out as the best by the judges.

他的小說被評委們評爲第一名。

b) recognize 認出RECOGNIZE to recognize someone or something in a group of people or things 分辨出，辨認出

She was able to pick out her father at the other side of the room.

她發現父親就在房間另一頭。

I picked out Valerie’s voice from among the general conversation.

我從衆人的說話聲中聽出了瓦萊麗的聲音。

c) see 看見 if you can pick something out, you can see it but not very clearly 模糊地看出

I could just pick out some letters carved into the stone.

我只能依稀辨認出石頭上刻的一些字母。

d) shown clearly 清晰地顯示 if something is picked out, it is in a different colour or material from the background, so that it can be clearly seen 〔用某種顔色或材料〕使醒目

His name was picked out in gold lettering.

他的名字用了金色字母，很是醒目。

n Grammar

Pick out is usually passive in this meaning.

e) play a tune 奏出曲調APM to play a tune on a musical instrument slowly or with difficulty 〔緩慢或困難地〕彈[拉]奏

He sat at the piano and picked out a simple tune.

他坐在鋼琴前，慢慢彈出一支簡單的曲子。

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pick out• I could also pick his feet out and deal with the foot-rot which was starting to set in.• Helen picked it out and dropped it on the floor; beneath was a tangle of string.• Lead me into a room and I could pick them out for you.• When you picked one out it left a can-shaped cav - ity.• I bet you he can pick him out of a crowd of people.• They had grown up and gone to work picking stump out of every other burned off field in this Florida county.• It must be marvelous to just belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.• She unerringly picks us out of the crowd in the cavernous old building.

24 pick up phrasal verbphr v

a) lift STH/SB up 撿起[拿起,拾起]某物；舉起某人LIFT pick something/somebody ↔ up to lift something or someone up 撿起，拿起，舉起

He picked up the letter and read it.

他拿起信看了起來。

The phone rang and I picked it up.

電話響了，我接了起來。

Mummy, can you pick me up?

媽媽，把我抱起來好嗎？

b) pick yourself upLIFT to get up from the ground after you have fallen 〔跌倒後〕站起來

Carol picked herself up and brushed the dirt off her coat.

卡羅爾站起身，拍去外套上的灰塵。

c) tidy STH 整理某物 pick something ↔ up American EnglishAmETIDY to make a room or building tidy 整理，收拾

Pick up your room before you go to bed.

收拾一下房間再上床。

d) get STH 得到某物 pick something ↔ up informal

i. GETto get or win something 獲得；赢得

He’s already picked up three major prizes this year.

今年他已經拿了三項大獎。

ii. BUYto buy something or get it from a shop etc 買到

I picked up an evening paper on the way home.

我在回家的路上買了一份晚報。

For more details, pick up a leaflet in your local post office.

欲知更多詳情，請到當地郵局取閱宣傳單。

iii. to get an illness 染上〔疾病〕

I picked up a virus while I was in America.

我在美國的時候感染了病毒。

e) collect 領取 pick something ↔ upGET to collect something from a place 取〔某物〕

I’ll pick my things up later.

我過一會兒來取我的東西。

She just dropped by to pick up her mail.

她只是順便過來取她的郵件。

f) let SB into a vehicle 讓某人進入車輛 pick somebody ↔ upGET to let someone get into your car, boat etc and take them somewhere 搭載，接載

I’ll pick you up at the station.

我會到車站接你。

The survivors were picked up by fishing boats from nearby villages.

幸存者被附近村莊的漁船救了起來。

g) learn 學會 pick something ↔ upLEARN to learn something by watching or listening to other people 〔通過觀察或聆聽而〕學會

I picked up a few words of Greek when I was there last year.

去年在希臘的時候我學會了一些希臘語單詞。

Mary watched the other dancers to see if she could pick up any tips.

瑪麗觀察其他跳舞的人，看能否學到什麽竅門。

h) notice 注意 pick something ↔ upSMELLHEAR to notice something that is not easy to notice, such as a slight smell or a sign of something 注意到〔不容易注意的事情〕

I picked up a faint smell of coffee.

我聞到淡淡的咖啡味。

The dogs picked up the scent and raced off.

那些狗聞到了氣味，一下子跑開了。

We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river.

我們在河對岸又發現了他們的足迹。

i) radio/signals 無線電/信號HEAR pick something ↔ up if a machine picks up a sound, movement, or signal, it is able to notice it or receive it 接收

The sensors pick up faint vibrations in the earth.

傳感器探測到地球内部微弱的顫動。

I managed to pick up an American news broadcast.

我設法收聽到一檔美國的新聞廣播節目。

j) sex 性 pick somebody ↔ upMEET to become friendly with someone you have just met because you want to have sex with them 勾搭上

young women sitting around in bars waiting to be picked up

閒坐在酒吧等人來搭讪的年輕女子

k) start again 重新開始

i. CONTINUE/START AGAINif you pick up where you stopped or were interrupted, you start again from that point 〔從談話、會議停頓的地方〕繼續

We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off.

我們上午會再次碰面，到時候接着繼續。

ii. IDEA pick something ↔ up if you pick up an idea that has been mentioned, you return to it and develop it further 回過頭來進一步闡述〔某觀點〕

I’d like to pick up what you said earlier.

我想再談談先前你說過的問題。

This same theme is picked up in his later works.

相同的主題又出現在他後來的作品中。

l) improve 改進,提高

i. IMPROVEif a situation picks up, it improves 〔情況〕改進，提高，好轉

Her social life was picking up at last.

她的社交生活終於有了起色。

The economy is finally beginning to pick up again.

經濟終於開始有所好轉。

We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now.

我們度過了一段困難時期，不過目前情況又開始好轉了。

ii. pick somebody upHEALTHY if a medicine or drink picks you up, it makes you feel better 〔藥物或飲料〕使某人感覺好些，使振作精神 → pick-me-up

m) road 道路 pick something ↔ up if you pick up a road, you go onto it and start driving along it 沿某條路行進

We take the A14 to Birmingham and then pick up the M5.

我們沿14號幹線公路到伯明翰，然後上5號高速公路。

n) train/bus 火車/公共汽車 pick something ↔ up if you pick up a train, bus etc, you get onto it and travel on it 乘坐

o) pick up speed/steamFAST/QUICK to go faster 加快速度

The train was gradually picking up speed.

火車正在逐漸加速。

p) pick up the bill/tab (for something) informalPAY FOR to pay for something （爲某事物）付款

Why should the taxpayer pick up the tab for mistakes made by a private company?

爲什麽納稅人要爲一家私人公司的過錯所造成的損失買單呢？

q) wind 風FAST/QUICK if the wind picks up, it increases or grows stronger 變大，變強

r) colour 顔色 pick something ↔ upSUIT/LOOK GOOD TOGETHER if one thing picks up a colour in something else, it has an amount of the same colour in it so that the two things look nice together 含有…的顔色〔因而搭配得好〕

I like the way the curtains pick up the red in the rug.

窗簾帶點地毯中的紅色，我喜歡這種搭配。

s) criminal 罪犯 pick somebody ↔ upCATCH if the police pick someone up, they take them somewhere to answer questions or to be locked up 逮捕某人，拘捕某人

He was picked up by police as he was trying to leave the country.

他企圖出境時被警察拘捕。

t) pick up the pieces (of something)RECOVER/GET BETTER to try to make your life normal again after something very bad has happened to you （使某事物）重整旗鼓，恢複正常

Thousands of victims of the earthquake are now faced with the task of picking up the pieces of their lives.

數以千計的地震災民現在面臨着重建生活的重擔。

u) pick up the threads (of something)CONTINUE/START AGAIN if you pick up the threads of something that you were doing, you try to return to it and start doing it again after it stopped or was changed 恢複，重新開始（某事物）

Now that the war was over they could pick up the threads of their lives again.

戰爭已經結束，他們可以重新開始生活了。

v) pick your feet up spoken used to tell someone to walk properly or more quickly 好好走路；快點走

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pick up• Do you want me to come back and pick you guys up?• He's hoping to pick up a few bargains at the sales.• I picked up a few words of Turkish when I was in Istanbul.• I picked up a stomach bug on holiday in Turkey.• Hi, I've come to pick up a suit I left on Tuesday.• I told Virginia I'd pick her up about 8:00.• I feel like I spend all my time picking up after the kids.• After the phone had rung twice, Joyce picked it up and said hello.• Brendan has a cold. He must have picked it up at school.• Financial commentators think we'll see the economy starting to pick up early next year.• Can you pick some milk up from the shop on your way home?• Come on Bob, pick up! I know you're there.• At present the hotel is almost empty, but I'm sure things will start to pick up in the spring.• I arranged to pick up Mr Clarke and take him to his accommodation.• "Where's Diana?" "She just left to pick up the kids from school."• Could you pick up the newspapers and magazines for me?• I'll pick up the tickets on my way home from work.• A lifeboat picked them up two miles from the coast.• Help me pick these things up. We have company coming.• It's just a little thing I picked up when I was in Kathmandu.

pick yourself up• A team in such a position is likely to find it hard to pick itself up.• Shaken and deafened, I picked myself up.• I crashed to the ground, picked myself up, and began staggering around the car to the other side.• Carol picked herself up and dusted herself off.• He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor.• Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again.• Although he picked himself up and walked away, he knew something was wrong.• I fell, picked myself up, lurched forward another yard or two, then fell again.• However, Grimm was already picking himself up, swearing, dusting himself off, retrieving his cap.

things are picking up• Well, things are picking up again.

pick up speed/steam• Of course, good melody will sound fine at any tempo, so play slowly and gradually pick up speed.• The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.• The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.• As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m.• The coach picked up speed as it rattled and jolted down to Forty-second Street.• Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.• If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.

pick up the bill/tab (for something)• After its shareholder equity turned negative last year, parent Dasa started picking up the bills.• But remember - raid your savings now and Santa won't pick up the bill.• Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.• When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.• In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.• I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.• The company's picking up the bill for my trip to Hawaii.• There is a growing, often unstated, anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services.• Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten, twenty or thirty years.

pick up the pieces (of something)• It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.• This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces.• Whimper like a whipped puppy, Jay, have a drink and pick up the pieces.• The town is beginning to pick up the pieces after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.• As proved by history, women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war.• Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.• I picked up the pieces myself.• In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.• In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives.

pick up the threads (of something)• She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.• The good thing is that he's trying to pick up the threads of his life again.• Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.

pick your feet up• Ronnie, stop shuffling and pick your feet up.

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pick• I'll pick a few flowers to take to mum's.• The class was divided into four teams, and each group was asked to pick a leader.• Pick a number from one to five.• Do you think he might pick another woman for the Supreme Court?• Migrant workers come to the orchard each autumn to pick apples.• Joe picked Steve and Terry to be on his team.• In the end, Katie picked the blue dress.• Let me pick the movie tonight - I don't want to see another comedy.• Laura's out in the garden picking tomatoes.• Republicans seized control of both houses of Congress, picking up a whopping 117 House seats along the way.• By Oscar night, Taylor had recovered sufficiently to pick up hers for Butterfield 8.• Vietcong couriers slipped into Saigon to pick up his reports, which he wrote in invisible ink made from starch.• Maybe he used a towel to pick up the iron teakettle.• It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.• After two or three days I started picking up.

pick the team• He was not attempting to pick the team for tonight's First Division match against Wimbledon.

freshly picked• These lilacs are freshly picked.• Herbs are at their best when freshly picked.• Sure enough, inside we found some beautiful zucchini and tomatoes, freshly picked from a nearby garden.• A garland of freshly picked marigolds hung from the mirror.• She was bending over a basket of freshly picked marrow flowers, arranging them to her satisfaction.• Live food Try to eat freshly picked or freshly killed foods.

pick something out of something• I bet you he can pick him out of a crowd of people.• She picked Graham out of a police lineup after he was arrested for unrelated crimes.• They had grown up and gone to work picking stump out of every other burned off field in this Florida county.• Ralph picked a pencil out of her pencil cup.• It must be marvelous to just belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.• She unerringly picks us out of the crowd in the cavernous old building.• Chaucer and Laurence Sterne picked plums out of theirs.

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