Our apartments are perfect in every detail — hot and cold water, private baths, special hall service for every floor, elevators, and all that.
pick out:
1. choose
- She picked out a bottle of wine that she particularly liked.
- I’m going to pick out a few books for my friend in Shanghai.
2. distinguish from surrounding persons, objects, etc.
- At once I picked out my elder sister in the crowd.
- 他的房子有一扇黑色的大门,很容易从其余的房子中区别出来。(His house is easily picked out from the rest for it has a large black door.)
- When walking in the company of other men, there must be one I can learn something from. I shall pick out his merits to follow and his shortcomings for reference to overcome my own.
(三人行, 必有我师焉。择其善者而从之, 其不善者而改之。)
Collocation:
pick and steal 扒窃
pick out 选择
pick up 拾起
pick up with 在偶然机会认识
discreetly: adv. carefully and sensibly; considerately; not too obviously
- His utterances were discreetly academic.
- A detective was sent discreetly to make inquiries about Miss Hutton’s financial situation.
- The industrial areas were discreetly apart, concealed from residential and recreational portions of the town.
inquiry: n. request for help or information; investigation
- I am making some inquiries about the train schedule.
- I suggest that you make a careful inquiry into the damage once again.
- I advise you make thorough inquiry about the enterprise before you embark on it.
Collocation:
inquiry about 请求帮助;询问
inquiry into 调查;查究
on inquiry 经打听;经询问
replacement: n. person or thing that replaces another
- A good deal of old equipment needed junking and replacement.
- Robot hands are a replacement for human hands, and wheels from a car are a replacement for human feet.