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

• His guest finally did arrive at the restaurant only to pick at her food and leave early.
  他的客人终于到了饭店，但她只勉强吃了几口，早早离开了。
• Come by to pick me up at your convenience.
  在你方便的时候来接我。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• When the opportunities avail themselves, they pick away at us.
  他们一逮到机会就把我们抓来。
• 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。
• 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。
• You must pick at least one category.
  必须至少选取一个类别。
• '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。”