| 词汇 | pickings |
| 释义 | pickings noun[ plural ] uk /ˈpɪk.ɪŋz/ us /ˈpɪk.ɪŋz/ money that can be earned easily or dishonestly: 不义之财；（不正当的）外快 The street-sellers are lured to the town by the rich/easy pickings that are to be had from foreign tourists.因为可以从外国游客那里赚到大量的／毫不费力地赚到钱财，街边小贩被吸引到镇子里来了。 Informal words for money boodle bread buck cheddar defence fund G, g gee grand K, k lolly lucre shekel spondulicks tanner tenpenny the readies thou ton wonga your daily breadidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Earning money Examples of pickingspickings The very size of the demand has also brought considerable financial pickings. We may get something even worse and more damaging; but at least there are a few pickings of compensation in the opinion of other countries. Unlike the remote northern grouse moors, such estates offered potentially rich pickings for poachers. This lack of effective defoliation also required slower harvest machinery operation, and occasional repeated mechanical pickings. There may be easier pickings elsewhere, or it may be that design space exploration has limited utility. This is slim pickings indeed. There must be something else, some other mechanism that determines which of the paradigms of closings, or games, or pickings-up are the appropriate paradigms for the directives in question. The "pickings for the boys" would become more rampant, more unashamed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be pickings here and there, but that does not apply peculiarly to the legal profession; of course not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My experience of protection rackets—it is all vicarious—is that, when the pickings get richer, the protection rackets do not necessarily fade away. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have done that most probably in the hope of easy pickings, as was the case with the brewers in my constituency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no easy pickings for this country in international economics and there never will be again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It therefore offers rich pickings, and some people will always try to grab these by illegal means. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If they are going to have "pickings", good luck to them! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The point has been made very truly that the lawyers will have great pickings from defending cases under the clause. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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