Each country has its region to pick on, the way people in my native Holland take it out on the Belgians, and vice versa.(每个国家都有各自作弄的对象。在我的故乡荷兰,人们喜欢捉弄比利时人,到了比利时正好相反。)
I'm not just going to pick on individual investors, I'm going to pick on institutional investors too.(我不仅在批评个人投资者,我也要批评机构投资者。)
They could create hard-wearing clothing, strengthen our buildings, help repair our broken bones, or they may pick on someone their own size by picking fights with the viruses that cause winter colds.(它们能够制造耐穿的衣物,加固我们的楼房,修复我们受损的骨头,或者根据各人不同的情况与导致冬季感冒的病毒做斗争。)
Sorry that I cannot go to the airport to pick you up in person on account of stomach ache.(很抱歉我不能亲自去机场接你,因为我肚子痛。)
It's very easy to pick on him. Very easy.(指责他是非常容易的,非常容易。)
If we can't explain why some people like to pick on these kids, can we at least shed some light on what causes bed wetting?(如果我们无法解释为什么偏偏这些儿童尿床,那么我们至少探究下尿床的原因吧!)
Bullies pick on younger children.(恃强凌弱的家伙欺负更年幼的孩子。)
Say somebody does pick on you in the hall.(如果有人老爱在大庭广众之下挑你的刺。)
Even if the police are more likely to pick on black boys, both the police and society as a whole are far less racist than in the past. Yet history lingers.(即便警察更倾向于针对黑人男孩,警察和社会整体的种族主义倾向都比过去要小,然而历史在踟蹰不前。)
The only pressures I had was when people used to pick on me.(唯一的压力就是人们找我茬。)