Picking
['pɪkɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.).
(noun.) the quantity of a crop that is harvested; 'he sent the first picking of berries to the market'; 'it was the biggest peach pick in years'.
編輯:卡罗尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pick
(n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
(n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
(n.) That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
(n.) Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
(n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
(n.) Rough sorting of ore.
(n.) Overburned bricks.
(a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
(a.) Nice; careful.
约瑟夫編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Then it began to rise, moving straight ahead again for three or four hundred feet, the propellers picking up their former rate. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The stranger, however, picking up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She went with Hermione along the bank of the pond, talking of beautiful, soothing things, picking the gentle cowslips. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I was picking blackhearts, and went further than I meant. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- What a licking I shall get when it's over, young Osborne thought, picking up his man. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Picking our way so stealthily over that rocky, nettle-grown eminence, made me feel a good deal as if I were on my way somewhere to steal something. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Lord Kinnaird heard nothing as applied to himself, never having dreamed of such a thing as insulting or picking a quarrel with young Lambton. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Picking it up to examine it, Clayton gave a cry of astonishment, for the ring bore the crest of the house of Greystoke. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Nor of wolves either, Anselmo said, picking up the other pack. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- She was sullenly picking and pulling at the twigs of the hedge as she passed. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- We also have our diplomatic secrets, said he and, picking up his hat, he turned to the door. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I expect you to help me, I said, in picking up the fragments of evidence which Sergeant Cuff has left behind him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- One leg Belgian, one leg English, and the pickings of eight other people in it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
艾维斯編輯