| 单词 | pickings |
| 释义 | pick·ings /ˈpɪkɪŋz/ noun [plural] informal MONEYmoney or profits that you can get easily from a situation 容易得来的钱[利润] There were rich pickings (=a lot of money) to be had from the stock market. 股市里大有赚头。 There are easy pickings for thieves at these big outdoor concerts. 在这些大型户外音乐会上窃贼很容易得手。slim/lean/meagre pickings Companies are put off investing in poor areas because of the meagre pickings to be had. 因为无利可图，各公司都推迟了在贫困地区的投资。Examples from the Corpuspickings• Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.• Soaring inflation means lean pickings for the majority.• Meager pickings in the industry have provided the back-drop to increasing consolidation.• Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.• They have destroyed the city on us and become rich on the pickings.• What a life, what fun, what pickings were there here!rich pickings• Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings.• So - if only they can overcome the obvious difficulties, inter-tidal creatures find rich pickings.• A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.• It would have yielded particularly rich pickings.• Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.pick·ings nounChineseSyllable or can profits get Corpus money that you |
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