shrimp

英 [?r?mp] 美[?r?mp]

TEM4IELTSCET6CET6+低頻詞常用詞匯殼類動物

復數:?shrimps;?shrimp;

shrimp 蝦

來自中古英語 schrimpe,蝦，來自 Proto-Germanic*skrimpaz,彎，轉，PIE*sker,彎，轉，詞源同 ring,curve,scrimp.因蝦蜷曲的身形而得名。

shrimp: shrimp: [14] The shrimp’s name appears to echo its small size. It was probably borrowed from some Low German source, and its possible relatives include Middle Low German schrempen ‘shrink, wrinkle’ and modern German schrumpfen ‘shrivel, shrink’. Its use for a ‘tiny person’ is virtually as old in English as its application to the crustacean, and probably goes right back to its original source.
shrimp (n.): early 14c., "slender, edible marine crustacean," probably from Old Norse skreppa "thin person," from Proto-Germanic *skrimp- (see scrimp). Related to Old English scrimman "to shrink;" the connecting notion is probably "thinness" (compare Danish dialectal skrimpe "thin cattle"). The meaning "puny person" in English is attested from late 14c.; an especially puny one might be a shrimplet (1680s).
shrimp (v.): "fish for shrimp," 1801 (implied in shrimping ), from shrimp (n.). Related: Shrimper (1808).

3. Shrimp are raised in long uniform ponds, frozen in the nearby packing plant and shipped north.: 蝦放養在清一色的長池子里，再送到附近的包裝車間冷凍，最后用船運往北方。

4. When the shrimp farm is built it will block the stream.: 一旦養蝦場建起來，將會截斷這條河流。

5. Experiments were made to adapt this variety of shrimp to fresh water.: 人們進行了一些試驗來使這種蝦適應于淡水.