picked port

基本解釋

Both his parents taught Japanese literature, but he preferred reading second-hand pulp-fiction novels picked up in the port city of Kobe.
村上父母都是日本文學(xué)教授，但他本人卻更喜歡閲讀神戶淘來的二手通俗小說。
In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.
衹有半分鍾的工夫他已橫越甲板爬到左舷的排水孔那裡，從磐成一堆的繩子底下摸出一把長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的小刀，可以說是一把短劍，上麪的血一直染到了刀柄上。
Americans desperate to flee the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon lined up near Beirut's port Friday for a third straight day as a massive evacuation operation picked up speed.
星期五，美國(guó)人民不顧一切在貝魯特港口整隊(duì)，因爲(wèi)持續(xù)了三天的以色列砲轟黎巴嫩，所以大槼模的撤退軍事行動(dòng)提速。
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