clam

英 [kl?m] 美[kl?m]

TEM4IELTSGRETOEFL低頻詞擴展詞匯殼類動物

復數:?clams;

1. “蛤蜊”本身很像該詞的近似音譯。青島人將其念著“gala”，據說源于四本當年殖民統治時日語發音的影響，而日語發音就是該英語單詞發音的近似音譯。
2. 諧音“殼耐磨”----想到這個諧音就直到它是貝殼類動物---蛤蜊外部有兩片堅硬的貝殼，當然很耐磨了。
3. clamp => clam.

clam 蛤蜊

詞源同clamp,夾子，夾具。后用以指蛤蜊之類的雙殼軟體動物。

clam: clam: [OE] Old English clam meant ‘something for tying up or fastening, fetter’; it can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic base *klam-, which also produced clamp [14] and is related to climb. There is a gap in the word’s history in early Middle English times, but it reappears at the end of the 14th century in the sense ‘clamp’, and in the 16th century it was applied, originally in Scotland, to the mollusc which now bears the name, apparently on the grounds that its two shells close like the jaws of a clamp or vice.
=> clamp, climb
clam (n.): bivalve mollusk, c. 1500, in clam-shell, originally Scottish, apparently a particular use from Middle English clam "pincers, vice, clamp" (late 14c.), from Old English clamm "bond, fetter, grip, grasp," from Proto-Germanic *klam- "to press or squeeze together" (cognates: Old High German klamma "cramp, fetter, constriction," German Klamm "a constriction"). If this is right then the original reference is to the shell. Clam-chowder attested from 1822. To be happy as a clam is from 1833, but the earliest uses do not elaborate on the notion behind it, unless it be self-containment.
clam (v.): "to dig for clams," 1630s, American English, from clam (n.). Clam up "be quiet" is 1916, American English, but clam was used in this sense as an interjection mid-14c.

1. The barnacle and the clam are two examples of filter feeders.: 藤壺和蛤類是濾過覓食者的兩種例子.

2. It'started off well, but he seemed to clam up towards the end.: 剛開始很, 但是最后他似乎有些沉默.

4. Everybody shuts up like a clam as soon as you mention it.: 你一提及此事,大家便都閉口不言.