| 词汇 | cherry-pick |
| 释义 | cherry-pick verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈtʃer.iˌpɪk/ us /ˈtʃer.iˌpɪk/ to pick only the best people or things from a group, so that only people or things that are less good remain: 挑选（最佳的一个），挑选（最有利的一个） The new schools were accused of cherry-picking the best students in the area. 这些新成立的学校受到指责，称他们只在该地区挑选最好的学生。 Taking and choosing adopt adopted adoption appoint bags I...idiom be your best betidiom cull faute de mieux favoured filterable first choice go for someone picker Robin Hood select selection selective selectively skim you pays your money and you takes your choice/chanceidiom cherry-pick | Business Englishcherry-pick verb[ I or T ] ukus to choose only the best or most suitable from a group of people or things: They cherry-picked the most promising potential customers and concentrated their efforts on them. Policymakers will cherry-pick ideas from the study, and commit to implementing only the easiest and cheapest ones. cherry-pickingnoun[ U ] He was accused by his colleagues of cherry-picking when he selected all the best students for his own course. Examples of cherry-pickcherry-pick You cannot cherry-pick when it comes to human rights, and it is not by breaching human rights that the conflict will be de-escalated. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The risk is that private consortiums will cherry-pick the most economically desirable routes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why does he cherry-pick which issues he is going to listen to and claim the credit for listening to? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are those who say that we cannot cherry-pick at the report. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is absolutely no right for the new owner to cherry-pick or infill. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must ensure that the present proposals are altered, so that companies cannot cherry-pick services and leave others to suffer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He does not seem to understand—or does not choose to admit—that he cannot cherry-pick. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been told that we cannot cherry-pick the agreement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must not ever forget that we are dealing with a package and cannot cherry-pick. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Each variation, closure and dedication must be agreed separately, so that the inspector can cherry-pick. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is tempting to cherry-pick the options in the consultation paper for the benefit of one's own authority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It tended to cherry-pick and to do individual deals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are worried that incoming competitors could cherry-pick benefits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there the risk that foundation hospitals will be able to cherry-pick? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To cherry-pick from the package and, above all, to ignore the recommendations made about automatic timetabling would rapidly destroy that balance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of cherry-pick 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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