pilchard

• n. 沙丁鱼；皮尔彻德鱼

词源不详。

pilchard (n.)

fish of the herring family, 1540s, earlier pilcher (1520s), of unknown origin. The -d- is "excrescent" [OED].

1. She's not the pilchard sort of little slip of a girl , she's a Bonny Scotch trout.

她并不象那瘦小的沙丁, 她是动人的苏格兰白鲈鱼.

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1. small fatty fish usually canned

2. small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

...tinned pilchards.

听装沙丁鱼

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She's not the pilchard sort of little slip of a girl , she's a Bonny Scotch trout.

她并不象那瘦小的沙丁, 她是动人的苏格兰白鲈鱼.

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