clam
clam 英 [klæm] 美 [klæm]
vi. 捞蛤；保持沉默，闭嘴不言 n. 蛤；沉默寡言的人；钳子
进行时:clamming 过去式:clammed 过去分词:clammed 第三人称单数:clams 名词复数:clams
- A clam is a marine animal with two shells that eats by straining food from water, sand, or mud. You can sometimes find clams by digging in the sand close to the seashore.
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- vi. 捞蛤；保持沉默，闭嘴不言
- n. 蛤；沉默寡言的人；钳子
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1. clam soup
蛤蜊汤
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2. Chicken vegetable or clam chowder.
鸡汤,蛤肉浓汤.
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3. You should not clam up on him.
你不应该拒绝跟他谈话.
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4. The movie star is a clam about her age.
这影星对她的年龄守口如瓶.
- clam (n.) bivalve mollusk, c. 1500 (in clam-shell), originally Scottish, apparently a particular use of 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" (source also of Old High German klamma "cramp, fetter, constriction," German Klamm "a constriction"), possibly from a PIE *glem- or *glom- "contain, embrace" (see glebe).
- 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.
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