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单词 to school up
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to school up
intransitive. Of fish and sea mammals: to collect or swim together in a school (school n.2 1) or shoal. Frequently in to school up: to collect or crowd close together at or near the surface of the water.
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1597 N. Breton Wits Trenchmour sig. C The Herings seldom scull, but in a thick misty morning.
1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 45 Fishes of each kind skull togeather.
1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 264 Let the Wind blow which Way it will, that Way they [sc. dead whales] will scull a Head, tho' right in the Eye of the Wind.
1845 Colonial Mag. & East India Rev. 6 443 At that season the fish were schooling in myriads in the bay.
1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Menhaden do not school up until the beginning of the summer.
1903 Hunter-Trader-Trapper Sept. 18 They were schooling on top of the water and it is quite a sight to see several hundred large fish..leaping and jumping.
1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams vi. 206 Harp seals and flocks of seabirds were drawn to fish schooling in the nutrient-rich waters.
2004 B. Sampson Best Fishing Trips Connecticut x. 196 They [sc. scup] tend to concentrate around reefs and rocky areas, but will school up along the beaches.
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