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Someone who is handpicked has been carefully chosen for a special job, not taken at random and not only because they were next. A coach handpicks a team. A boss handpicks a . The picture behind the word is picking fruit by hand, one by one, so you take only the good ones — and that older meaning is still alive: handpicked berries, handpicked tea. In everyday talk, though, you will hear it more about people, and it feels like a compliment: they wanted you on purpose.
精挑細選的
組成From hand + picked. picked is from pick: to choose, or to pull fruit off a plant.
同家族的字
- pickto choose, or to pull fruit off a plant
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
handpickedadj
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Picked by hand rather than by machinery.
- The farm sells handpicked apples and pears.
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Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual.
- A number of handpicked employees will run the project.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。