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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月聽力原文
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Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.
出自-2017年6月聽力原文
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By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
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This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
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Pick dishes of the right size.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
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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月閱讀原文
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You can pick up your suit after five o'clock.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
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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月聽力原文
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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月聽力原文
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I'd also be happy to pick up anything you need.
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
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She can pick the man up at the grocery store
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
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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月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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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月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A
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six birds have just been trained to pick up rubbish at a French historical theme park.
2019年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A
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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月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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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月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A
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This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.
2015年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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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月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A
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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月聽力原文
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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月聽力原文
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Users pick their favourite song of the week to share with others.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
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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月閱讀原文
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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月閱讀原文
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And if fertility in ageing countries does not pick up?
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
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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月聽力原文
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Would you be able to pick them up in time
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
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Why does the man say he can't pick up the kids?
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
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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月聽力原文
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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月聽力原文
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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月聽力原文
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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月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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So we can have taxpayers pick up students' tuition in exchange for dictating what those students will study.
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
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VERB
挑選;選擇
If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one.
例句
Mr Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in London...
諾埃爾先生為倫敦的6個銷售職位選出了10人進行面試。
I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate.
我特意選了一個熱帶氣候的城市。
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N-SING
精華;精品;精英
You can refer to the best things or people in a particular group as the pick of that group.
例句
The boys here are the pick of the under-15 cricketers in the country...
這兒的男孩是全國15歲以下板球手中的佼佼者。
We had the pick of suits from the shop.
我們買了店里最好的套裝。
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VERB
采;摘
When you pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, you break them off the plant or tree and collect them.
例句
She used to pick flowers in the Cromwell Road...
她過去常到克倫威爾路采花。
He helps his mother pick fruit.
他幫母親摘果子。
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VERB
拿取;挪移
If you pick something from a place, you remove it from there with your fingers or your hand.
例句
He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate...
他拿起腿上的餐巾,放在盤子旁邊。
He picked the telephone off the wall bracket.
他從墻上的固定托架上摘下電話。
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VERB
摳(鼻);剔(牙)
If you pick your nose or teeth, you remove substances from inside your nose or between your teeth.
例句
Edgar, don't pick your nose, dear...
埃德加,不要摳鼻子,寶貝兒。
He had just had a meal and was picking his teeth after it.
他剛吃完飯,正在剔牙。
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VERB
尋找…的口實;尋(釁);找(碴兒)
If you pick a fight or quarrel with someone, you deliberately cause one.
例句
He picked a fight with a waiter and landed in jail...
他找碴兒跟服務生打了一架,最后進了監獄。
He was clearly in a mood to pick a quarrel with anybody.
他現在的心情明顯是逮誰就想跟誰吵。
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VERB
撬開(鎖);扒竊…中的東西
If someone such as a thief picks a lock, they open it without a key, for example by using a piece of wire.
例句
He picked each lock deftly, and rifled the papers within each drawer.
他熟練地撬開每一把鎖,把每個抽屜里的文件都偷走了。
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N-COUNT
同 pickaxe
A pick is the same as a pickaxe .
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PHRASE
挑挑揀揀;挑三揀四;挑剔
If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
例句
As a vocational teacher I could pretty much pick and choose my work...
作為一名職業教師,我幾乎可以隨意挑揀自己的工作。
We, the patients, cannot pick and choose our doctors.
我們患者不能對醫生挑挑揀揀。
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PHRASE
可從…中任意挑選
If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
例句
Here is an actress who could have her pick of any part...
這是一個角色任她挑選的女演員。
Klein could have had his pick of the world's top models.
克萊恩本可以從世界頂尖模特中想選誰就選誰。
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PHRASE
任意挑選
If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
例句
Accountants can take their pick of company cars...
會計師可以任選配備的公車。
Take your pick from ten luxury hotels...
10家豪華賓館任你選擇。
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PHRASE
擇路而行;小心行路
If you pick your way across an area, you walk across it very carefully in order to avoid obstacles or dangerous things.
例句
The girls were afraid of snakes and picked their way along with extreme caution...
女孩們害怕蛇,于是謹小慎微地擇路而行。
I moved away from the shack and picked my way among the rubble.
我離開木屋,小心地走在瓦礫間。
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PHRASE
收拾殘局;努力恢復正常
When you pick up the pieces after a disaster, you do what you can to get the situation back to normal again.
例句
Do we try and prevent problems or do we try and pick up the pieces afterwards?...
我們是想要防患未然呢,還是想要事后收拾殘局?
She died, and somehow I never picked up the pieces and started again.
她死后我竟一蹶不振,無法重新來過。
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PHRASE
加速
When a vehicle picks up speed, it begins to move more quickly.
例句
Brian pulled away slowly, but picked up speed.
布賴恩慢慢開動汽車,但很快就加速了。
Noun
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"Verb
1. select carefully from a group;
"She finally picked her successor""He picked his way carefully"2. look for and gather;
"pick mushrooms""pick flowers"3. harass with constant criticism;
"Don't always pick on your little brother"4. provoke;
"pick a fight or a quarrel"5. remove in small bits;
"pick meat from a bone"6. remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits;
"Clean the turkey"7. pilfer or rob;
"pick pockets"8. pay for something;
"pick up the tab""pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages""foot the bill"9. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;
"he plucked the strings of his mandolin"10. attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example;
"Pick open the ice"11. hit lightly with a picking motion
12. eat intermittently; take small bites of;
"He pieced at the sandwich all morning""She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"