When you cherrypick (often written cherry-pick), you do not take the whole group. You look through it and take only the best things — or the best people — and you leave the rest. It is like walking up to a cherry tree and taking only the sweet, ripe fruit, not the small or sour ones, and doing that before anyone else can reach them. People use it about jobs and sport as well as about objects. A company may cherrypick the strongest students. A big club may cherrypick the best young players. That can sound a little unfair, because the good ones went first. Though actually, a very common use now is about facts. If someone cherrypicks their numbers, they show only the pieces that help their side and they hide the rest. Teachers, news writers, and people arguing online get accused of this. So the word is not only “choose the best”; it often carries a small complaint: you were too choosy, or you were not honest about the whole picture. It is a bit informal. In careful writing people may say “select the best” instead.

精挑細選（常有「先把好的拿走、不太公平」的味道；講數據時指只挑對自己有利的）