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

• Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harward Business School.
  安排轻重缓急和善于利用时间是在哈佛商学院学不到的。
• 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。
• I tend to leave the windfalls for the birds to pick at.
  我习惯于将被风吹落的水果留给鸟儿们啄食。
• Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
  兀鹰在天空盘旋等待着啄食鹿的尸体。
• There is no need to pick at him all day long. He's a child after all.
  不要老是对他唠唠叨叨，他毕竟还是个孩子嘛！
• When the opportunities avail themselves, they pick away at us.
  他们一逮到机会就把我们抓来。
• But operators across China hope to pick up at least some of the increasingly sophisticated business.
  然而，中国各地的运营商都希望至少能分得这项日益复杂的业务的一部分。
• I'll pick up at that point, expanding the discussion into ways you can improve the quality of your tests and check the quality of the finished code.
  我将以这个问题为起点，讨论如何改进测试的质量和检查最终代码的质量。
• 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。
• 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。