bream

FREQ #31797

n. 欧鳊属淡水鱼, 鲷科海鱼 vt. 打扫

发音

UK /bɹiːm/
US /bɹɪm/
US /bɹim/
US /bɹɛm/

词形变化

breams 复数 breams breamed breaming breams 三单 breaming 现在分词 breamed 过去式 breamed 过去分词

别名

broom

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

  2. 2.

    A species in that genus, Abramis brama.

  3. 3.

    An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.

  4. 4.

    A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.

v.
  1. 1.

    To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

    航海 交通

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (whence French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (whence Dutch brasem), from Proto-West Germanic *brahsmō (whence Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina (whence German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”))), from Proto-Germanic *brahsmô, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).

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