喜樂美語

核心畫面

Reach a hand (often just the fingertips) toward a group of things, settle on one, and take it out — the single-out-and-lift-with-the-fingers gesture.

可以想成：手伸向一堆東西，目光（或指尖）停在其中一個上，把它單獨挑出來、拿起來。pick 的核心畫面比較像「從一群裡…更多收起可以想成：手伸向一堆東西，目光（或指尖）停在其中一個上，把它單獨挑出來、拿起來。pick 的核心畫面比較像「從一群裡選定一個、再用手指取走」這個動作——先是『選』，接著是『用指尖去取』，後面幾乎所有意思都從這兩股力量長出來。

原始詞典資料37 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。

Pickname

  • 1

    A surname.

picknoun/pɪk/

  • 1

    A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

  • 2

    slangnauticaltransportAn anchor.

    • It's better to amble around, drop the "pick" for a lunchtime swim or beachcomb, then find a nice anchorage for the night.
  • 3

    A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

  • 4

    A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.

  • 5

    A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

  • 6

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

  • 7

    obsoleteA pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

    • Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on 't.
  • 8

    A choice; ability to choose.

    • France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

  • 10

    Pasture; feed, for animals.

    • ‘She's all African grass and Brahmans. There's not a blade of native pick left, except on the ridges.’
    • The judicious use of fire could have protected valuable nut trees, promoted the growth and seeding of grass and, if practised at a distance from their camps, even attracted herbivores to the sweet young pick.
  • 11

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesA screen.

  • 12

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesAn offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

  • 13

    American-footballball-gamesfootballAn interception.

  • 14

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesA good defensive play by an infielder.

  • 15

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesA pickoff.

  • 16

    datedmediaprintingpublishingA particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.

    • If it be in the smallest degree gritty, it clogs the form, and consequently produces a thick and imperfect impression; no pains should, therefore, be spared to render it perfectly smooth; it may then be made to work as clear and free from picks
  • 17

    artartsThat which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

  • 18

    businessmanufacturingtextilesThe blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.

    • so many picks to an inch
    • Leaving a tail 2 yd long for hemstitching, weave 3 picks of plain weave and use the tail to hemstitch in groups of 8 warp ends. Weave 3 more picks of plain weave, then begin the pattern treadling following the draft in Figure 2, beginning with the border.

pickverb/pɪk/

  • 1

    To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

    • Don't pick at that scab.
    • He picked his nose.
  • 2

    To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.

    • It's time to pick the tomatoes.
  • 3

    To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

    • She picked flowers in the meadow.
    • to pick feathers from a fowl
  • 4

    To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

    • to pick rags
  • 5

    To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.

    • to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket
    • Did you pick Master Slender's purse?
  • 6

    To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.

    • I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
    • She had to pick her steps to avoid the flutters of the quivering, bleeding bodies.
  • 7

    To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.

  • 8

    ball-gamescricketgamesTo recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.

    • He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    entertainmentlifestylemusicTo pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

    • He picked a tune on his banjo.
  • 10

    To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.

    • The lock was of a kind that Watt could not pick. Watt could pick simple locks, but he could not pick obscure locks.
  • 11

    To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

    • Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?
  • 12

    To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

    • I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.
  • 13

    To steal; to pilfer.

    • to keep my hands from picking and stealing
  • 14

    obsoleteTo throw; to pitch.

    • as high as I could pick my lance
  • 15

    datedTo peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

  • 16

    To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

    • to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
    • Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.
  • 17

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesTo screen.

  • 18

    informalAmerican-footballball-gamesfootballTo intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.

    • The pass was almost picked, but the tight end was able to hold on.

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。