| 单词 | sardine |
| 释义 | sardine (once / 4252 pages) 1n 2n A sardine is a very small, oily fish. You might like to eat sardines on toast for lunch. If you do, we suggest an after-lunch mint may be in order. Sardines are most often bought canned, lined up in rows in little tins. The word sardine is actually a general term — it refers to a type of fish, most often a small herring, while a slightly larger one is sometimes called a pilchard. The phrase "packed like sardines," describing people crowded together in a tight spot like an elevator or a subway car, comes from the way sardines look in cans. The word itself comes from the Mediterranean island Sardinia. WORD FAMILYsardine: sardines USAGE EXAMPLESWe feasted: beer, wine, Prosecco and mountains of lobster, shrimp, sardines, and anchovies, a local specialty. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) The richest sources in food include fish like herring, sardines, mackerel, eel and salmon. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) The class of 44 so cramped NASA’s training facilities it was humorously nicknamed “the Sardines.” Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1n small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring Syn|Hypo|Hyper Sardina pilchardus, pilchard Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America clupeid, clupeid fish any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas 2n any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned Hypo|Hyper sild any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway Clupea sprattus, brisling, spratsmall herring processed like a sardine food fish any fish used for food by human beings clupeid, clupeid fishany of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas 3n small fatty fish usually canned 2Syn|Hyper pilchard saltwater fish flesh of fish from the sea used as food n a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony Syn|Hyper sard, sardius calcedony, chalcedony a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz |
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