pick over

英 [pɪk ˈəʊvə(r)]

美 [pɪk ˈoʊvər]

仔细检查…以便选出佳品; 挑拣

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 仔细检查…以便选出佳品；挑拣
  If youpick overa quantity of things, you examine them carefully, for example to reject the ones you do not want.
  1. Pick over the fruit and pile on top of the cream.
     拣出好的水果，码放在奶油上。

英英释义

verb

• separate or remove
  1. The customer picked over the selection
  Synonym:sieve out

双语例句

• Waves of gleaners sift the sweepings of Hanoi's streets, just as children pick over the rubbish of Maputo's main tip.
  越南河内的街道上是一波又一波的捡垃圾的，马普托的大垃圾场里可以看到捡垃圾的孩子。
• He began to pick his way over the tumbled rocks.
  他开始在倒塌的岩石间择路而行。
• In the UK, with the economy deteriorating and the uptick in claimant count, we expect Unemployment to pick up the pace over the last few months.
  在英国，随着经济的恶化，索赔计数的上升，我们预计失业者在过去几个月就已经采取行动。
• But you have to play well to pick up consistent results over a long period of time, so we need to take the positives from the defeat against Chelsea and build on it.
  但在长期上你必须踢得好才能拿到好的结果，所以我们需要看到对切尔西的比赛中表现出的积极的东西。
• How do you pick one library over another?
  您怎么选择这个库，而不选另一个？
• In the coming weeks, Wall Street's vultures will pick over Lehman's still-warm body and wait for one or two more victims to come their way.
  未来几周，华尔街上的秃鹫们会瓜分雷曼兄弟尚带余温的尸体，然后等着更多的不幸者重蹈覆辙。（最后一句令人不寒而栗）
• You don't have to pick being a fighter over a crafter or anything like that.
  你不需要在成为一个战士还是工匠之间无奈选择。
• They allowed us to grind the spices, pick over the raisins and lick the stirring spoons.
  大人们会允许我们俩帮他们研磨香料，挑拣葡萄干，或者用勺子搅拌馅料。
• The rise of tablets begs the question& why would corporate customers pick chromebooks over equally affordable tablets?
  我们不禁要问：既然企业客户买得起平板电脑，那他们凭什么要选择价格差不多的Chrome笔记本？
• Many inner-city kids have a sharp instinct for business. But they often lack the jargon and structural knowledge suburban peers can pick up over the dinner table.
  住在市区公寓里的许多孩子对商业有着强烈的冲动，但他们通常缺乏郊区富家子弟在饭桌上听来的行话和结构性知识。