■ selection

1) 从多个当中进行选择但尚未选定的过程。

• The judges may revise their selection process.评判员们可以修改他们的选拔办法。

2) 过程的结束（选定了）。

• They made a wrong selection of materials他们材料选错了。

3) 选择过程产生的结果。

• selections from 20th-century American poets 20世纪美国诗人选编
• Your new secretary is a good selection.你新来的秘书挑选得好。
• In the present translation "representation" has been selected as the best English word to convey the German meaning, a selection that is confirmed by the French and Italian versions...(Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, English Version by E. F. Payne, p. ix, Translator's Introduction)在本译本中，挑选了 representation 一词作为最能传达该德文 (Vorstellung) 原意的英文单词，这个选择，亦为法文本和意大利文本所确认…

4) 供选择（但尚未从中选定）的多个事物的整体（集合名词）。

• a wide/good selection of up-to-date men's fashions供选购的大批最新款式男服
• Most of us like to have a good selection to choose from when we go shopping.我们购物时，大都喜欢有多种多样的东西以供选择（注意：这里的 a good selection 同 3) 例句的 a good selection 意义很不同）。