英语词汇“in a school”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. A shoal or large number of fish, porpoises, whales, etc., swimming together whilst feeding or migrating. Also in a school, in or by schools.

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c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 14205 (MED) Thei falle thikkere than heryng fletes In-myddes the se In here scole.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 450 Sculle, of a fysshe [?a1475 Winch. scul of fysh], examen.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fvii A Scoll of ffysh.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 58 They [sc. bream] appere in May in mightti Sculles. so that sumtime they breke large Nettes.

1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 780 We saw to the west of those Isles three or foure Whales in a skul.

1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 108 And this skole of fish continued with our ship for the space of fiue or sixe weekes.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 22 And there they flie or die, like scaling sculls, Before the belching Whale.

1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) x. 237 Repaire to the River, where you have seen them to swim in skuls or shoales in the Summer time.

1673 H. Stubbe Further Iustification War against Netherlands Apol., etc. 127 The latter should not fish within eighty miles of the Coast, least the Scholes of Herrings should be interrupted.

1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 391 A great Shoal, or, as they call it, a Scool of Pilchards, came swimming..into the Harbour.

1791 Gen. Lincoln in J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. (1792) III. 456 These fish..take each schull its proper river.

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 36 Great skulls o' haddock, cod and ling.

1863 H. C. Pennell Angler-naturalist 285 The smolts assemble in sculls of from forty to seventy together.

1884 Leisure Hour Jan. 64/1 A ‘school’ of porpoises gambolling in mid ocean.

1939 Geogr. Jrnl. 93 482 There were schools of river dolphins, but few other signs of life.

1969 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float (1976) xii. 135 Pothead whales... so busy pursuing schools of unseen squid that some of them surfaced and blew within a stone's throw of us.

2010 E. O. Wilson Anthill xi. 112 In sunlight it was possible to catch glimpses of gar and spiny soft-shelled turtles as they glided past schools of bream.

单词	in a school
释义	> as lemmas in a school 1. A shoal or large number of fish, porpoises, whales, etc., swimming together whilst feeding or migrating. Also in a school, in or by schools. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > shoal schoolc1425 shoal1579 flote1603 sea-shoal1738 run1771 mountain1880 the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > aquatic (group of) schoolc1425 shoal1834 c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 14205 (MED) Thei falle thikkere than heryng fletes In-myddes the se In here scole. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 450 Sculle, of a fysshe [?a1475 Winch. scul of fysh], examen. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fvii A Scoll of ffysh. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 58 They [sc. bream] appere in May in mightti Sculles. so that sumtime they breke large Nettes. 1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 780 We saw to the west of those Isles three or foure Whales in a skul. 1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 108 And this skole of fish continued with our ship for the space of fiue or sixe weekes. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 22 And there they flie or die, like scaling sculls, Before the belching Whale. 1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) x. 237 Repaire to the River, where you have seen them to swim in skuls or shoales in the Summer time. 1673 H. Stubbe Further Iustification War against Netherlands Apol., etc. 127 The latter should not fish within eighty miles of the Coast, least the Scholes of Herrings should be interrupted. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 391 A great Shoal, or, as they call it, a Scool of Pilchards, came swimming..into the Harbour. 1791 Gen. Lincoln in J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. (1792) III. 456 These fish..take each schull its proper river. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 36 Great skulls o' haddock, cod and ling. 1863 H. C. Pennell Angler-naturalist 285 The smolts assemble in sculls of from forty to seventy together. 1884 Leisure Hour Jan. 64/1 A ‘school’ of porpoises gambolling in mid ocean. 1939 Geogr. Jrnl. 93 482 There were schools of river dolphins, but few other signs of life. 1969 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float (1976) xii. 135 Pothead whales... so busy pursuing schools of unseen squid that some of them surfaced and blew within a stone's throw of us. 2010 E. O. Wilson Anthill xi. 112 In sunlight it was possible to catch glimpses of gar and spiny soft-shelled turtles as they glided past schools of bream. extracted from schooln.² < as lemmas
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