pick and choose

释义

1. 牛津电影里 100%

   挑拣；精挑细选

   to choose only those things that you like or want very much

   It's like at the airport. Cabbies can't pick and choose what ride they want.

   It gave me a chance to pick and choose the movies I directed from that moment on.

电影里这样说 · 4 部

• You're a physicist, you pick and choose rules?Oppenheimer2023
• It's like at the airport. Cabbies can't pick and choose what ride they want.National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022
• It gave me a chance to pick and choose the movies I directed from that moment on.Spielberg2017
• And he gets to pick and choose who gets culled, does he?Kingsman: The Secret Service2014
• It's not for the whore to say yes sir or no sir It's not for the harlot to pick or to choose Or to lead me a danceLes Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• You cannot pick and choose your boat. Get in.A Night to Remember1958
• We, the US, would invite Soviets to come to the US and pick and choose athletes that they wanted to test,Icarus2017

在完整场景里学

• 奥本海默2023
  • 大师劝他离开剑桥：leaves a little to be desired（还稍欠火候）
  • 请他执掌研究院：the man for the job（非他莫属）
  • 火车上结识拉比：seek out（主动去寻找）
• 初步举证2022
  • 装傻让证人说漏嘴：play it cool（把激动按住）
  • 律师诱证人入套：blood in the water（破绽已露）
  • 回家报赢挨追问：What's new?（有什么新鲜的）
• 斯皮尔伯格2017
  • 少露鲨鱼更吓人：on the edge of your seat（紧张得坐不住）
  • 镜头补上够不着的童年：pie-in-the-sky（画在天上的饼）
  • 溜进片场签下合同：hear a pin drop（安静到能听见针）

同一词条的短语

• pick brains
• pick a fight
• pick holes in
• pick a lock
• pick pocket
• pick up the bill, tab
• pick up the pieces
• pick up speed
• pick up the threads
• pick your way
• pick a winner
• have a bone to pick with