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cherry-pick

/cher-ee-pik/US // ˈtʃɛr iˌpɪk //

樱桃小丸子,樱花,樱桃园,挑剔的人

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to buy only the sale items and ignore the other merchandise.

Examples

  • In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.

  • No more allowing people to justify their bigotry by spouting a cherry-picked Bible verse.

  • Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”

  • What image are you hoping people who pick up this book and read it, come away with?

  • Couple guided Stella as she crawled and dipped her chest to pick up each magnet.

  • We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.

  • The majority pick up a job when they can, but are inevitably idle and suffering two-thirds of the time.

  • Cherry-tree stems, under the name of agriots, constitute a specialty of Austrian manufacture.

  • But if they all pick up the broadcast that this is where to get a free ride home, I'll have just another sand trap here.

  • Isabel longed for the time when she should enter them and pick up the threads dropped from her mother's nerveless fingers.