crawfish

英 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

美 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

n.  螯虾

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柯林斯词典

• 淡水螯虾
  Acrawfishis a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 crayfish

英英释义

noun

• large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
  Synonym:spiny lobsterlangousterock lobstercrayfishsea crawfish
• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  Synonym:crayfishcrawdadcrawdaddy
• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
  Synonym:crayfishcrawdadecrevisse

verb

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
  1. We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
  2. He backed out of his earlier promise
  3. The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
  Synonym:retreatpull backback outback awaycrawfish outpull in one's hornswithdraw

双语例句

• Crawfish farmers in New Orleans use them for temperature control on the way to the market.
  向市场运送小龙虾的途中，新奥尔良农民使用它们来控制温度。
• Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo.
  还有什锦菜，秋葵肉片，小龙虾派。
• Their hard outer shell, called the exoskeleton, does not grow with the crawfish and is shed periodically.
  它们坚硬的外壳，叫做外骨骼，不会随着小龙虾的成长而生长，而会周期性蜕落。
• The initial report indicate it was lead to a cleaning powder used to clean the crawfish.
  有说小龙虾本身就是病菌的温床，有说是洗虾粉造成的。
• Hazard analysis and its measures of prevention and control of chloramphenicol in crawfish
  淡水小龙虾氯霉素残留的危害分析和预防控制措施
• "It must be awful to dream of starvation after a seven-course dinner including that enormous crawfish."
  “晚饭吃了七道菜，包括一只大龙虾，夜里睡觉还要梦见挨饿，一定是非常可怕的。”
• All tired out, they reached the red crawfish inn.
  总算来到红虾旅店，大家都快累死了。
• When the crawfish season ends, around June, the traps are pulled out and the rice season begins.
  小龙虾季节在六月份左右结束之后，这些圈套就被拉出来，随后稻米季节开始了。
• Also low are haddock, pollock, flounder and sole, Atlantic croaker, crawfish, catfish, trout, Atlantic mackerel, crab and mullet.
  其他汞含量较低的品种有：黑线鳕、青鳕、比目鱼和鳎、细须石首鱼、小龙虾、鲶鱼、鳟鱼、大西洋鲭鱼、蟹和鲻鱼。
• Last weekend, I found some crawfish tails and boiled whole crawfish at a grocery store, and was about to buy some.
  上周，我见到一些小龙虾，在杂货店整个蒸煮，打算买点。