peck

peck

noun

1. a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

2. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons

3. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

e.g. a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
it must have cost plenty
a slew of journalists
a wad of money

Synonym: batchdealflockgood dealgreat dealhatfulheaplotmassmessmicklemintmountainmucklepasselpileplentypotquite a littleraftsightslewspatestacktidy sumwad

verb

1. bother persistently with trivial complaints

e.g. She nags her husband all day long

Synonym: naghen-peck

2. eat like a bird

e.g. The anorexic girl just picks at her food

Synonym: pick atpeck at

3. eat by pecking at, like a bird

Synonym: pick up

4. hit lightly with a picking motion

Synonym: pickbeak

5. kiss lightly

Synonym: smack

1. 啄；啄食
If a bird pecks at something or pecks something, it moves its beak forward quickly and bites at it.

e.g. It was winter and the sparrows were pecking at whatever they could find...
时值冬季，麻雀啄食着能够找到的任何东西。
e.g. Chickens pecked in the dust...
鸡在尘土中啄食。

2. 匆匆轻吻
If you peck someone on the cheek, you give them a quick, light kiss.

e.g. Elizabeth walked up to him and pecked him on the cheek...
伊丽莎白走到他面前，在他脸颊上匆匆吻了一下。
e.g. She pecked his cheek.
她轻轻地吻了一下他的脸。

1. 配克：汗队长三弟马戈奉命回国,凭借10配克(Peck)战利品金戒指,迦太基政府派出了四千名努米底亚士兵、四百头战象,另外从伊比利亚两万步兵和四千骑兵增拨. 冬季来临,汉队长赶回暖和的阿普里亚过冬,顺道骚扰了诺拉(Nola)和卡西利农(Casilinum)两城.

2. 佩克：在<>一书中,他们指出,50 年代末和60 年代初,佩克(Peck)和哈维赫斯特参考了哈维赫斯特生盖伦(Galen)对希波克拉底的4 种类型分类采用了气质概念,这就是近代调节说是由波兰心理学家斯特里劳(Strelau)提出来的.

3. 派克：盾构穿越王仲山故居前,根据派克(Peck)的地层损失概念进行理论计算. 假定施工引起的地面沉降是在不排水情况下产生的,那么,所有的沉降槽的体积应等于地层损失的体积;假定地层损失在隧道长度上是均匀分布的,那么,