Picking

(noun.) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.).

(noun.) the quantity of a crop that is harvested; 'he sent the first picking of berries to the market'; 'it was the biggest peach pick in years'.

编辑:卡罗尔

• A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Then it began to rise, moving straight ahead again for three or four hundred feet, the propellers picking up their former rate. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The stranger, however, picking up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She went with Hermione along the bank of the pond, talking of beautiful, soothing things, picking the gentle cowslips. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I was picking blackhearts, and went further than I meant. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• What a licking I shall get when it's over, young Osborne thought, picking up his man. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Picking our way so stealthily over that rocky, nettle-grown eminence, made me feel a good deal as if I were on my way somewhere to steal something. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Lord Kinnaird heard nothing as applied to himself, never having dreamed of such a thing as insulting or picking a quarrel with young Lambton. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Picking it up to examine it, Clayton gave a cry of astonishment, for the ring bore the crest of the house of Greystoke. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Nor of wolves either, Anselmo said, picking up the other pack. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• She was sullenly picking and pulling at the twigs of the hedge as she passed. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• We also have our diplomatic secrets, said he and, picking up his hat, he turned to the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I expect you to help me, I said, in picking up the fragments of evidence which Sergeant Cuff has left behind him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• One leg Belgian, one leg English, and the pickings of eight other people in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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