Pick

(noun.) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; 'he was called for setting an illegal pick'.

(noun.) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; 'they used picks and sledges to break the rocks'.

(noun.) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material; 'he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks'.

(noun.) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument.

(verb.) remove in small bits; 'pick meat from a bone'.

(verb.) select carefully from a group; 'She finally picked her successor'; 'He picked his way carefully'.

(verb.) look for and gather; 'pick mushrooms'; 'pick flowers'.

(verb.) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; 'Pick open the ice'.

(verb.) provoke; 'pick a fight or a quarrel'.

(verb.) pilfer or rob; 'pick pockets'.

安尼塔整理

• I was attending a little patient in the college near, said he, and saw it dropped out of his chamber window, and so came to pick it up. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Give them to me and I'll pick them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I've got two shots left, Gurt, so, if that boat comes too near, I'll try to pick off one of the rowers. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I enjoy the art of all sorts here immensely; but I suppose if I could pick my enjoyment to pieces I should find it made up of many different threads. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It was good logic, good, earthly, feminine logic, and if it satisfied her I certainly could pick no flaws in it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Pick a place that is safe, not too close and from where you can see well and comfortably. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Livius got out of the carriage, and picked the man up, to ascertain that he was alive, as he fell without uttering a groan. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• As our visitor concluded, Holmes sprang up without a word, handed me my hat, picked his own from the table, and followed Dr. Trevelyan to the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Sherlock Holmes picked them up one by one, and laid them along the edge of the table. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Simpson in his flight had dropped his cravat, and Straker had picked it up--with some idea, perhaps, that he might use it in securing the horse's leg. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I picked her up and put her in, and there she has been ever since. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Piani picked up Aymo's cap where it had rolled down the embankment and put it over his face. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• When cocoanuts are picked, however, they have still another covering-an outer rind which has a smooth surface. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Then it began to rise, moving straight ahead again for three or four hundred feet, the propellers picking up their former rate. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The stranger, however, picking up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She went with Hermione along the bank of the pond, talking of beautiful, soothing things, picking the gentle cowslips. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I was picking blackhearts, and went further than I meant. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• She picks like de debil and all his angels! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• She returned wearily to the thought of Percy Gryce, as a wayfarer picks up a heavy load and toils on after a brief rest. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The rat-faced one now called to the men who had remained at the boat, and they came slowly up the bank carrying picks and shovels. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• As the pins are knocked off into the gutters, or the pit, the pin boy picks them up and lays them flat on their sides into the pockets at the top of the machine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Mr. Guppy picks up his hat and rises. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

加文手打