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单词 shrimp
释义

shrimp

/ʃrɪmp /
noun (plural same or shrimps)
1A small free-swimming crustacean with an elongated body, typically marine and frequently of commercial importance as food.
  • Pandalus, Crangon, and other genera, order Decapoda.
While blue whales may occasionally feed on pelagic crabs and small fishes, their diet is almost exclusively euphausiid shrimps commonly called krill....
  • Eumalacostraca is the group that contains most of the animals the general public recognize as crustaceans, such as shrimp, crabs, lobsters.
  • The trip north is slow for the cow-calf pair because of stops for nursing and the occasional meal of mysid shrimp or other food encountered.
1.1 informal, derogatory A small, physically weak person: I can handle a shrimp like him any time...
  • Are you sure you want to hang out with that shrimp?
verb [no object] (usually go shrimping)
Fish for shrimps: some families still go shrimping off the coast at Lytham at Trebetherick you paddle on Daymer Bay or shrimp off Gully...
  • "We grew up with people who shrimped for a living," she says.
  • They hunted alligator and went shrimping and had their own little wooden shrimp boats.
  • A lot of people have gone shrimping.

Origin

Middle English: probably related to Middle Low German schrempen 'to wrinkle', Middle High German schrimpfen 'to contract', also to scrimp.

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