撿（撿）jiǎn? （拾?。?pick up;collect;gather: ～ 柴火 gather firewood；～ 到一支鋼筆 find a fountain pen；～ 麥穗 pick up ears of wheat;glean a wheat field；～ 煤核兒 pick out unburnt coal from cinders；
春天里他們可以 ～ 到整籃整籃的野鴨蛋。 In spring they could collect whole baskets of wild duck eggs.
◆撿了芝麻，丟了西瓜 pick up the sesame seeds but overlook the watermelons — concentrate on trivial matters to the neglect of important ones;penny wise and pound foolish；
撿漏 {建} repair the leaky part of a roof；
撿破爛兒 pick odds and ends from refuse heaps；
撿拾器 pickup；
撿拾裝載機(jī) pick(-)up (grain) loader |