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. The pond contains a mixture of goldfish and carp.
池塘里混养着金鱼和鲤鱼。
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2. I don't want to carp about the way you did.
我不想对你的方法吹毛求疵。
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3. Carp live in the lake.
鲤鱼生活在湖里。
- 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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