pick at

英 [pɪk æt]

美 [pɪk æt]

少量地吃; 吃一点点

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 少量地吃；吃一点点
  If youpick atthe food that you are eating, you eat only very small amounts of it.
  1. Sarah picked at a plate of cheese for supper, but she wasn't really hungry.
     萨拉晚餐时只吃一盘奶酪，但她并没有真觉得饿。

英英释义

verb

• express a negative opinion of
  1. She disparaged her student's efforts
  Synonym:disparagebelittle
• eat like a bird
  1. The anorexic girl just picks at her food
  Synonym:peck atpeck
• pluck or pull at with the fingers
  1. She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse
  Synonym:pluck atpull at

双语例句

• Both cases Kenya and Uganda although established diplomatic relations with China immediately after independence direct investments began to pick up at the beginning of the new century.
  肯尼亚与乌干达都在独立后立即与中国建立外交关系。新世纪伊始，直接投资便开始出现。
• Atlanta also owns Indiana's pick at No.11, as part of the trade that sent Al Harrington to the Pacers last summer.
  亚特兰大，也赢得印第安纳的11顺位，这是作为去年夏天将哈灵顿卖给步行者的交易之一。
• As long as they pay, tourists may pick fruits at their pleasure in this park.
  只要付钱，游客们可以在这个公园里自由采摘水果。
• In other words they will pick people at random and see what happens to them.
  换句话说，他们要随机的挑选人，看看他们会发生什么情况。
• 'I could take the subway and have David pick me up at the station.' — 'Nothing doing.'
  “我可以坐地铁，然后让戴维到车站接我。”——“不行。”
• That way, you can directly specify the IP and hostname of your virtual machines instead of relying on WebSphere CloudBurst to pick one at random from a pool you defined.
  这样，就可以直接指定虚拟机的IP和主机名，而不是依靠WebSphereCloudBurst从您定义的池中随机地选择。
• When the opportunities avail themselves, they pick away at us.
  他们一逮到机会就把我们抓来。
• I'll pick you up at five this afternoon.
  今天下午五点我去接你。
• Every house we look at you find something to pick at.
  我们看的每间房子你总能挑出毛病来。
• The extended-through-space train I pick out at the end of our walk is the same as the extended-through-space train that I picked out at the beginning of our walk.
  走到末尾的时候，我谈到的贯穿空间的火车，和一开始我谈到的，是同一辆。