pick one's battles

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To involve oneself in disputes only if one is likely to win. idiomatic
  2. To take a stand for a cause only if it is truly important enough to be worth the costs. idiomatic
    — “[…]Jimmy Iovine, who runs Interscope, my record company, said, ‘Pick your battles carefully — don’t put your life at risk,’ but at the end of the day, I don’t see how you can shut up and just enjoy success when other people who don’t have the fame or the luxury to rent security guards are suffering.[…]”

词形变化

picks one's battles present,singular,third-person picking one's battles participle,present picked one's battles participle,past picked one's battles past
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