Word · Frequency #10545
picket
在…前设置纠察；参加罢工纠察
To protest or demonstrate, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the place of employment.
- 1.
To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
由工会组织的抗议,通常在工作地点前进行。
- 2.
To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
用尖桩围住或加固
- 3.
To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
用桩拴住或似乎拴住
- 4.
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
用哨兵守卫营地或道路
用尖桩围住或加固；把…拴在尖桩上；设前哨守卫；用前哨警戒；由工会组织的抗议,通常在工作地点前进行。；用桩拴住或似乎拴住
In use
Workers are picketing outside the factory to demand better wages.
The union members picketed the company headquarters all day yesterday.
He regularly pickets the construction site with a sign.
picket + noun (place)
用于表示包围或警戒某个地点。
Workers picketed the factory entrance.
工人们围住了工厂入口。
picket + noun (person)
用于表示指派某人担任哨兵或纠察。
The captain picketed two soldiers near the camp.
上尉派了两名士兵在营地附近担任警戒哨。
picket (intransitive)
用于表示以纠察队形式进行抗议或警戒。
Connections
Collocations
- picket a factory
- 在工厂前设置纠察
- Workers picketed the factory during the strike.罢工期间，工人们在工厂前设置了纠察。
- picket outside the office
- 在办公室外设置纠察
- Union members picketed outside the office all morning.工会成员整个上午都在办公室外设置纠察。
- picket for higher wages
- 为争取更高工资而进行纠察
- The nurses picketed for higher wages in front of the hospital.护士们在医院门前为争取更高工资而进行纠察。
- picket against job cuts
- 抗议裁员而进行纠察
- Hundreds of workers picketed against job cuts outside the plant.数百名工人在工厂外抗议裁员而进行纠察。
- picket a horse
- 把马拴在尖桩上
- The farmer picketed his horse in the meadow to let it graze.农夫把马拴在草地里的尖桩上让它吃草。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
picket 含有 pick（尖物），记住工人举着标语牌像一排尖桩围着门口抗议。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：labour disputes、union strikes、workplace protests 作动词时，最常见的意思是“（在…前）设置纠察、参加罢工纠察”，多用于工会活动或劳资纠纷的语境；其他义项如“用尖桩围住”“把（动物）拴在尖桩上”等则比较正式或专业，日常口语中较少见。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Ticket, cricket, and thicket rhyme with picket (/ˈpɪkət/), all ending in /-kɪt/ with stress on the first syllable. Watch out for similar-looking words with different vowels: packet /ˈpækɪt/, pocket /ˈpɒkɪt/, racket /ˈrækɪt/, and rocket /ˈrɒkɪt/.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
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