pick apart

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pick apart 的定义

  1. Also, pick holes in or pick to pieces. Find flaws in something by close examination, criticize sharply, as in The lawyer picked apart the testimony, or He found it easy to pick holes in their argument, or The new editor picked her manuscript to pieces. These expressions use pick in the sense of “pierce” or “poke,” a usage dating from the 1300s; pick holes in dates from the mid-1600s, pick to pieces from the mid-1800s.

pick apart 近义词

pick apart

等同于 censure

更多pick apart例句

  1. The man, Joshua Kemp, told what police describe as “a bogus story that quickly fell apart.”
  2. Apart from the video, the Saraya Al-Khorasani group has made no official declaration that it is linked to Taghavi.
  3. In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.
  4. Days away from her dream being fulfilled, it all fell apart.
  5. The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.
  6. Moreover, most of the burrows were only a few feet apart and no agonistic behavior was witnessed.
  7. Not a few of these are extremely beautiful, and are well worth growing on this account, quite apart from their peculiarity.
  8. He went himself to the kitchen, which was a building apart from the cottages and lying to the rear of the house.
  9. All Koreans pay great honour to their dead parents, and tablets to their memory are placed in some room set apart for the purpose.
  10. It has a training value entirely apart‌ from its practical value in that case.