carp
carp 英 [kɑ:p] 美 [kɑrp]
vi. 吹毛求疵 n. 鲤鱼
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- A carp is a type of fish found in fresh water. To carp is to complain and gripe repeatedly, especially about little things. Don’t carp about the rain if you live in the rain forest.
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- vi. 吹毛求疵
- n. 鲤鱼
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1. Benson was a normal-size carp when she was placed in Kingfisher Lake 16 years ago.
16年前当本森被放置到翠鸟湖区时，她是一条正常大小的鲤鱼。
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2. That almost certainly means at least some carp have eluded the device and reached the lake.
这几乎肯定意味着至少有一些鲤鱼已经钻过防线进入了大湖。
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3. That night was the first time I heard about him catching carp.
这个平安夜是我第一次听他说捕鲤鱼的故事。
- carp (n.) type of freshwater fish, late 14c., from Old French carpe "carp" (13c.) and directly from Vulgar Latin carpa (source also of Italian carpa, Spanish carpa), from a Germanic source (compare Middle Dutch carpe, Dutch karper, Old High German karpfo, German Karpfen "carp"); possibly the immediate source is Gothic *karpa. A Danube fish (hence the proposed East Germanic origin of its name), introduced in English ponds 14c. Lithuanian karpis, Russian karp are Germanic loan words.
- carp (v.) early 13c., "to talk, speak, tell," from Old Norse karpa "to brag," which is of unknown origin; meaning turned toward "find fault with, complain," particularly without reason or petulantly (late 14c.) probably by influence of Latin carpere "to slander, revile," literally "to pluck" (which is from PIE root *kerp- "to gather, pluck, harvest"). Related: Carped; carping.
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