pick

• vi. 挑选；采摘；挖
• vt. 拾取；精选；采摘；掘
• n. 选择；鹤嘴锄；挖；掩护
• n. (Pick)人名；(英、法、德、捷、匈、瑞典)皮克

来自中古英语picken,捡，适，采摘，来自古英语pician,刺，拔，来自Proto-Germanic*pikona,刺，啄，敲，捡，来自PIE*beu-,发出敲击声，拟声词，词源同peck,pike.

1. the person or thing chosen or selected;

"he was my pick for mayor"

2. the quantity of a crop that is harvested;

"he sent the first picking of berries to the market"

"it was the biggest peach pick in years"

3. the best people or things in a group;

"the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"

4. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

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

6. a thin sharp implement used for picking;

"he used a pick to clean dirt out of the cracks"

7. 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"

8. a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body;

"he was called for setting an illegal pick"

9. the act of choosing or selecting;

"your choice of colors was unfortunate"

"you can take your pick"

pick

pick: English has two distinct words pick. The verb [15], which originally meant ‘pierce’ (a sense which survives in ‘pick holes in’), appears to come via Old French piquer from a Vulgar Latin *piccāre ‘prick, pierce’. Picket [17], which originally meant ‘pointed stake’, is probably derived from the same source (its modern sense ‘guard’, which emerged in the 18th century, comes from the practice of soldiers tying their horses to stakes). Pique [16] is a slightly later borrowing from French. Pick ‘sharp implement’ [14] (as in toothpick) is probably related to Old English pīc ‘pointed object’, source of English pike ‘spear’.

It also lies behind English peak. In view of their close semantic similarity, it seems likely that the two picks share a common ancestor, which was no doubt responsible also for Old French picois ‘pickaxe’, altered in English, under the influence of axe, to pickaxe [15].
=> picket, pique; peak, pike

pick (v.)

early 13c., picken "to peck;" c. 1300, piken "to work with a pick," probably representing a fusion of Old English *pician "to prick," (implied by picung "a piercing, pricking," an 8c. gloss on Latin stigmata) with Old Norse pikka "to prick, peck," both from a Germanic root (source also of Middle Dutch picken, German picken "to pick, peck"), perhaps imitative. Influence from Middle French piquer "to prick, sting" (see pike (n.2)) also is possible, but that French word generally is not considered a source of the English word. Related: Picked; picking.

Meaning "to eat with small bites" is from 1580s. The meaning "to choose, select, pick out" emerged late 14c., from earlier meaning "to pluck with the fingers" (early 14c.). Sense of "to rob, plunder" (c. 1300) weakened to a milder sense of "steal petty things" by late 14c. Of forcing locks with a pointed tool, by 1540s. Meaning "to pluck (a banjo)" is recorded from 1860. To pick a quarrel, etc. is from mid-15c.; to pick at "find fault with" is from 1670s. Pick on "single out for adverse attention" is from late 14c.; pick off "shoot one by one" is recorded from 1810; baseball sense of "to put out a runner on base" is from 1939. Also see pick up. To pick and choose "select carefully" is from 1660s (choose and pick is attested from c. 1400).

pick (n.1)

c. 1200, "pointed tool for breaking up rock or ground," variant of pike (n.4). Meaning "sharp tool" is from mid-14c.

pick (n.2)

mid-15c., "a blow with a pointed instrument," from pick (v.). Meaning "plectrum for a guitar, lute, etc." is from 1895; as a type of basketball block, from 1951; meaning "choicest part or example" is first recorded 1760.

choose, select, elect, pick, prefer, opt

这些动词均含有"选择"之意。

choose： 普通用词，侧重根据个人意愿和判断从众多的对象中进行选择，着重被选者的优点。

select： 书面用词，具有庄严、正式的感情色彩。强调精选。

elect： 指按照一定的规章或法律，用投票等方式进行的认真慎重的选择。

pick： 口语用词，多指从个人角度仔细挑选，也含任意挑选之意。

prefer： 强调个人偏爱，不一定有选择的行动。

opt： 多指在几种可能性之间进行选择。

With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Pick dishes of the right size.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

As rationing came to an end in the 1950s, technology picked up and was used to mass-produce food," Tomes says.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

You can pick up your suit after five o'clock.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Well, to pick up where we left off last time, I believe we agreed that creativity is a mysterious idea.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

You maybe surprise to hear me say that if you must pick an extreme I think it's better to pick the spend-all approach.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

I'd also be happy to pick up anything you need.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

She can pick the man up at the grocery store

出自-2010年6月听力原文

According to Rae Ann Haight, the program manager for the national-preparedness office at USPS, Smith was fulfilling a request made by some of the home owners to pick up any mail that was left untouched.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

However, some parents are concerned that it encourages their children to drop litter so they can watch the birds to pick it up.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

six birds have just been trained to pick up rubbish at a French historical theme park.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Some viewers of her cooking show, The French Chef, insist they saw Child drop lamb on the floor and pick it up, with the advice that if they were alone in the kitchen, their guests would never know.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

In a chaotic two days of flying, the rescue team flew 3,000 miles roundtrip from the British station Rothera to pick up the workers at the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

When your child throws her spoon on the floor for the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, "That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon again!" The child will immediately test your claim.

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

Way up north in the Canadian Arctic, seabirds are picking up dangerous chemicals in the ocean and delivering them to ponds near where the birds live.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Users pick their favourite song of the week to share with others.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Unless you want to pick up and move to India, or Brazil, or China, the best way to do that is through trade.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

A recent review of California community colleges found that while a third of the Asian students picked up their degrees, only 15% of African-Americans did so as well.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

And if fertility in ageing countries does not pick up?

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Liz, I just found out I have a meeting and I can't pick up the kids after their soccer practice.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Would you be able to pick them up in time

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Why does the man say he can't pick up the kids?

出自-2013年12月听力原文

I hope you are not to put out with me for the delay ,I had to stop for the Fred's home to pick up a book on my way here M : well , that's not a big deal ,but you might at least phone if you know you will keep someone waiting Q : what do we learn about the women

出自-2011年6月听力原文

In America, people are faced with more and more decisions every day, whether it's picking one of thirty-one ice cream flavors, or deciding whether and when to get married.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

You know, all those old films where someone gets so outraged with his boss, He picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person's face.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

And I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

So we can have taxpayers pick up students' tuition in exchange for dictating what those students will study.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Don't forget to stop by pacific science center's store while you are here to pick up a wonderful science activity or remember your visit.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Guy Harvold, 24, had picked up the students and three course leaders from Gatwick Airport, and they were travelling to Bournemouth to meet their host families.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 完形填空 原文

He unfortunately passed away last year due to his cancer, but he left a deep impression on me and gave me the inspiration to pick up my pen again.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

Here she picks her top reads.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

I picked up the stem cells in providence, rhode island, and was meant to fly to Washington then back to London.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

If she had been aware that the mushroom were poisonous, she would not have picked them for dinner.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 句子填空 原文

If you love helping the environment, plant trees or pick up litter.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In the music class that was part of his school's standard curriculum, he was playing idly on the piano and found it easy to pick out tunes.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

In the store, I asked each of my kids to pick something they thought our "friend" there would appreciate.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

Instead of trying to pick out a job for me, they helped me learn those things that led me to it.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

Instead of walking a few blocks to pick up a child or the dry cleaning, they send the self-driving minibus.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It is at the hotel that the coach picks up tourists.

2016年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

Let's not pick these peaches until this weekend so that they get sweet enough to be eaten.

2018年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds no one left the house until that was doneand picked up after ourselves.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Our flight leaves at 11:00 a.m., so they should pick us up between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

Picking up her "lifetime achievement" award, proud Irene declared she had no plans to retire from her 36-year-old business.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

She suspected that one of her three daughters —then ten, eight, and six— had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn't.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 语法填空 原文

Should you come across waste paper thrown out of a passing car, pick it up.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

So, you don't need to come and pick me up.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Sometimes this technique would not work, and I had to pick up the set and shake it to remove the sound.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The company car will pick us up and take us there.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

The first musher, shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at nenana and rode all night.

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they don't know.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Then I have to drive to the airport to pick up an advertiser at 1?

2017年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Pick a standard work uniform or a few go-to options.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

And if Peretti were in charge at the Times? “I wouldn’t pick a year to end print,” he said, “I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

"I wouldn't pick a year to end print," he said.

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like "children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

2019年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If you have a bone to pick with someone in your workplace, you may try stay tight-lipped around them.

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Pick a number from one to twenty.

从一至二十中挑选一个数。

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She picked the best cake for herself.

她为自己挑了一块最好的蛋糕。

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He picked his words carefully.

他用词细心谨慎。

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Have I picked a bad time to talk to you?

我是不是挑了个不恰当的时间跟你谈话？

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He has been picked to play in this week's game.

他已入选参加本周的比赛。

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to pick grapes

摘葡萄

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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。

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I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate.

我特意选了一个热带气候的城市。

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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。

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We had the pick of suits from the shop.

我们买了店里最好的套装。

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She used to pick flowers in the Cromwell Road...

她过去常到克伦威尔路采花。

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He helps his mother pick fruit.

他帮母亲摘果子。

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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。

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He picked the telephone off the wall bracket.

他从墙上的固定托架上摘下电话。

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Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear...

埃德加，不要抠鼻子，宝贝儿。

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He had just had a meal and was picking his teeth after it.

他刚吃完饭，正在剔牙。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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We, the patients, cannot pick and choose our doctors.

我们患者不能对医生挑挑拣拣。

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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。

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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。

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Accountants can take their pick of company cars...

会计师可以任选配备的公车。

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Take your pick from ten luxury hotels...

10家豪华宾馆任你选择。

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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。

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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。

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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？

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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。

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Brian pulled away slowly, but picked up speed.

布赖恩慢慢开动汽车，但很快就加速了。

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