At that time of year, we got up at 4:30 in the morning, started picking at 5:00 and carried on working until late afternoon.

每年的那个时候，我们会早上4点半起床，5点开始采摘，然后一直工作到下午晚些时候。

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Spend as much time as you need on this step, because once you run out of things to write, get started picking the parts of the “barf” you want to use for your book.

在这一环节上要花费你所需要的尽可能多的时间，因为一旦你开始运用用完了写作素材，你就要开始从你倒出来的东西里挑选你想要的进行写作。

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When you look at a procedure where all of your error checking is in order, you don't have to spend time picking through it to find the mistake.

若所查看的这个过程中的错误检查均已就绪，那么就无需花很多时间去专门通查它来寻找错误。

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Baseball and poker players spend lots of time picking up signs, moving into position and working the count, but every once in a while, they have to step up to the plate and come through.

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Unlike apes which spend much of their time picking dirt and lice off their skin and fur, elephant preening is more about rolling in mud than removing it.

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Until it does, David Cameron will have plenty of time to wonder if picking up the phone to Sir Brian Leveson was really such a good idea.

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