picks
You can refer to the best things or people in a particular group as the pick of that group.
The boys here are the pick of the high school's soccer players.
这几个男孩都是该中学足球队的精英。
A pick is a large tool consisting of a curved, pointed piece of metal with a long handle joined to the middle. Picks are used for breaking up rocks or the ground.
pick on
If someone picks on you, they repeatedly criticize you unfairly or treat you unkindly.
Bullies pick on younger children.
恃强凌弱的家伙欺负年纪更小的孩子。
pick out
If you pick out someone or something, you recognize them when it is difficult to see them, for example, because they are among a large group.
The detective picked out the words with difficulty.
侦探费力地辨认出这些字。
If you pick out someone or something, you choose them from a group of people or things.
I have been picked out to represent the whole team.
我被挑选出来代表全队。
pick up
When you pick something up, you lift it up.
He picked his cap up from the floor and stuck it back on his head.
他从地板上捡起帽子,重新戴在头上。
When you pick yourself up after you have fallen or been knocked down, you stand up rather slowly.
Tony picked himself up and set off along the track.
托尼慢慢起身,沿着跑道跑了起来。
When you pick up someone or something that is waiting to be collected, you go to the place where they are and take them away, often in a car.
She was going over to her parents' house to pick up some clean clothes for Oskar.
她正要去父母家为奥斯卡取几件干净的衣服。
If someone is picked up by the police, they are arrested and taken to a police station.
Rawlings had been picked up by police at his office.
罗林斯在他的办公室被警察逮捕了。
If you pick up something such as a skill or an idea, you acquire it without effort over a period of time.
Where did you pick up your English?
你是在哪儿学的英语?
If you pick up someone you do not know, you talk to them and try to start a sexual relationship with them.
He had picked her up at a nightclub, where she worked as a singer.
他是在一家夜总会勾搭上她的,她在那儿当歌手。
If you pick up an illness, you get it from somewhere or something.
They've picked up a really nasty infection from something they've eaten.
他们因食用了某物而染上了非常严重的传染病。
If a piece of equipment, for example, a radio or a microphone, picks up a signal or sound, it receives it or detects it.
We can pick up Mexican television.
我们可以收到墨西哥电视台。
If you pick up something, such as a feature or a pattern, you discover or identify it.
Some groups of consumers are slow to pick up trends in the use of information technology.
有些顾客群对信息技术应用方面的潮流反应迟钝。
If someone picks up a point or topic that has already been mentioned, or if they pick up on it, they refer to it or develop it.
Can I just pick up that guy's point?
我能接着谈一下那个人的观点吗?
If trade or the economy of a country picks up, it improves.
Industrial production is beginning to pick up.
工业生产开始好转。
pick up speed
When a vehicle picks up speed, it begins to move more quickly.
Brian started the engine and pulled away slowly, but picked up speed once he entered Oakwood Drive.
布赖恩发动引擎慢慢驶离,但一上奥克伍德大道就开始加速。
take one's pick
If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
Accountants can take their pick of company cars.
会计可以任选配备的公车。
picks , picking , picked
If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one.
Mr Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in Dallas.
诺埃尔先生为在达拉斯的6个销售职位挑选了10个人进行面试。
When you pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, you break them off the plant or tree and collect them.
She used to pick flowers in the Adirondacks.
她以前常去阿迪朗达克山采花。
If you pick something from a place, you remove it from there with your fingers or your hand.
He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate.
他从腿上拿起餐巾,放在他的盘子旁边。
If you pick your nose or teeth, you remove substances from inside your nose or between your teeth.
Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear.
埃德加,不要抠鼻子,宝贝儿。
If you pick a fight with someone, you deliberately cause one.
He picked a fight with a waiter and landed in jail.
他找茬儿和服务员打架,结果锒铛入狱。
If someone such as a thief picks a lock, they open it without a key, for example, by using a piece of wire.
He picked each lock deftly, and rifled the papers within each drawer.
他熟练地撬开每一把锁,偷走了每个抽屉里的文件。