pick at

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers. idiomatic,transitive
    — Mr Vholes remained immovable, except that he secretly picked at one of the red pimples on his yellow face with his black glove.
  2. To touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers.; Synonym of peck at. idiomatic,transitive
    — Picking at a salad in a conference room at Google’s headquarters here, Ms. Mayer says she is vexed by how some perceive her.
  3. To pick on or repeatedly criticize (someone). idiomatic,transitive
    — "[N]oise and disrespect of no kind ain't pleasin' to him. His own folks behave becomin', but strangers go and act as they like. . . . Then we are picked at for their doin's."

词形变化

picks at present,singular,third-person picking at participle,present picked at participle,past picked at past
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