每当厨师挑我工作上的毛病时，我都很失望。

I was disappointed whenever the cook found fault with my work.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

你必须告诉马克不要挑我的毛病。

You must tell Mark not to pick on me.

youdao

为什么他总是挑我来做困难的工作？

Why does he always pick on me to do the difficult tasks.

youdao

If there are less than two elements there I just check one or both of those to see if I'm looking for the right thing.

列表里是否剩余超过两个元素？,是否剩余不足两个元素,这里面我就挑一两项来检查下是否运行正常。

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Let me see if I can pick out one or two that were particularly important.

让我想想能不能挑出一两件,特别重要的。

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Whereas the--if I take the rhythm out of the Ninth Symphony really Beethoven there is just going up and down a scale so it's very conjunct.

无论哪里,如果我将第九交响曲的,节奏单挑出来,你就会发现贝多芬这里,仅仅是一个个升或降的音阶,这是级进的典型例子

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