单词 | to pick apart |
释义 | > as lemmasto pick apart a. transitive. To separate by pulling repeatedly with the fingers, or by probing with a pointed instrument; to pull or comb apart. Frequently with adverbial complement, as to pick apart, to pick to pieces (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate by force or violence > pick apart pick1536 1536 [implied in: Act 28 Hen. VIII c. 4 §1 Weavers, tokers, spynners, diers, and wulpikers haue bene..withoute worke. (at picker n.1 3)]. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Carminarii, they that do pike [1545 picke] or make clene wulle, or carde. 1565–78 T. Cooper Thesaurus Carminatio, the picking or carding of wull..He or she that picketh or cardeth wull. 1674 S. Fell Househ. Acct. Bk. 10 Aug. (1920) 117 By mo pd Ja: Newby lasse for workinge hay & pikeing line 4: dayes Mothers acct 000 00 04. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade ii. 75 The Girles may be employed in mending the Clothes of the Aged... The boys in picking Okam. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 23 Easy Labour at first, such as picking of Wool or Cotton, teasing of Ockam. 1774 R. Warner tr. Plautus Courtezans ii. iii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies V. 28 I'll pick to pieces this old chap, An't please the gods! 1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 244/2 At night, a little negro fed the fire with..pine splinters, while all the young Alderlies were picking cotton. 1849 H. Melville Redburn liv. 340 Ropes were unstranded, and the yarns picked apart. 1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. iv. 83 Power of picking what I say to pieces. 1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island xxiv. 207 There were several other callers there, and, as soon as those unfortunate creatures left, our hostess and her three daughters picked them all to pieces. 1987 M. W. Bonanno Strangers from Sky iv. 98 You can't turn on the vid without some talk-show host or discussion group picking it apart. 2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians xxxi. 473 Sitting among the women of the workhouse, and picking oakum with them, Josephine Butler began to understand the conditions of working-class women. < as lemmas |
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