sardine

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /sɑːˈdiːn/    美 /sɑɹˈdin/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
    — They feasted on premium sardines packed in olive oil, as did their hunting dogs, who insisted on joining the meal.
  2. Carnelian. obsolete
  3. Someone packed or crammed into a small space. figuratively
    — They watched bemused as countless sardines disgorged from a railway car that was never designed to hold so many passengers.
  4. Dark-brown sard.
动词 v.
  1. To fish for sardines. intransitive,literally
    — No one on Monhegan says they saw them, but a man sardining says he saw it headed there, or at least some boat with people atop it.
  2. to pack or cram together tightly. broadly,figuratively,transitive
    — Six-foot- four McMichael (a past master at the art of sardining) not only crammed enough clothes for the trip into the mighty midget, but carried a full set of golf clubs and a banjo, as well!
形容词 adj.
  1. Characteristic of a sardius.
    — And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

词形变化

sardines plural sardines present,singular,third-person sardining participle,present sardined participle,past sardined past sardines plural more sardine comparative most sardine superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French sardine (cognate with Spanish sardina, Italian sardina), Latin sardīna; from Ancient Greek σαρδίνη (sardínē).
词源 2
Pliny states that its name was ultimately derived from Sardis, in Lydia, where the sard was first discovered; but probably ultimately derived from Persian sered ("yellowish-red").
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