pick是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 拾， 采， 摘； 挑选， 选择n. 镐， 鹤嘴锄，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maggy was not hurt, but picked herself up immediately, and then began to pick up the potatoes, in which both Little Dorrit and Arthur Clennam helped.
-- But the digging and shovelling and carrying away went on without intermission, until the ruins were all dug out, and the cellars opened to the light; and still no Flintwinch, living or dead, all right or all wrong, had been turned up by pick or spade.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wouldn't, Meg, your mother doesn't like it, you know,' he whispered, leaning over her chair, as Ned turned to refill her glass and Fisher stooped to pick up her fan.
-- Go, pick up my things, like a cher-ub, as you are,' said Jo, dropping down under a maple tree, which was carpeting the bank with crimson leaves.
-- I saw it going into your house as I came by, and if she hadn't defended it manfully I'd have had a pick at it, for it looked like a re-markably plummy one.'
-- Home came four dozen delightful little pots, half a barrel of sug-ar, and a small boy to pick the currants for her.
-- 'I'll try,' said Jo, winking hard as she knelt down to pick up the basket she had joyfully upset.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.
-- Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Himself!The great God absolute!The centre and circumference of all democracy!His omnipresence, our divine equality!
-- If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind!Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God!who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God!
-- Besides, now and then such unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from the unknown nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating outlaws of whalers; and the ships themselves often pick up such queer castaway creatures found tossing about the open sea on planks, bits of wreck, oars, whaleboats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks, and what not; that Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable excitement in the forecastle.
-- And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring that fat goose?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So you'll begin to pick oakum to-morrow morning at six o'clock,' added the surly one in the white waistcoat.
-- 'And wot,' said Sikes, scowling fiercely on his agreeable friend, 'wot makes you take so much pains about one chalk-faced kid, when you know there are fifty boys snoozing about Common Garden every night, as you might pick and choose from?'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'll go over here to Partridge's and you pick out what you want.
-- We might pick up some points."
-- "I'm afraid he'll never pick up."
-- In the last six weeks he had become strangely irritable--strangely satisfied to pick up and go out, whether things were right or wrong in the house.
-- "You pick out your clothes as soon as breakfast is over and we'll run down to New York soon.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then I can paddle over to town nights, and slink around and pick up things I want.
-- You see, ef I kep' on tryin' to git away afoot, de dogs 'ud track me; ef I stole a skift to cross over, dey'd miss dat skift, you see, en dey'd know 'bout whah I'd lan' on de yuther side, en whah to pick up my track.
-- 'Well, you're innocent, ain't you!Does three hundred dollars lay around every day for people to pick up?
-- Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn't borrow them any more then he reckoned it wouldn't be no harm to borrow the others.
-- Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell ev-ery time, but dasn't answer, be- cause he didn't want nobody to pick HIM up and take him into slavery again.
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