herring

英 ['herɪŋ] 美 ['hɛrɪŋ]

解释

※ 提供单词"herring"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

herring 鲱鱼

来自古英语har,灰白色，词源同hoar.因这种鱼灰白色的颜色而得名。

herring: herring: [OE] Just as the hare is probably the ‘grey animal’, so the herring could well be the ‘grey fish’. Old English hǣring goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *khēringgaz, in which the first syllable could represent the ancestor of English hoar ‘silvery-grey’ – the colour of the herring. French hareng comes from a variant of the West Germanic word.
=> hare, hoar
herring (n.): Old English hering (Anglian), hæring (West Saxon), from West Germanic *heringgaz (cognates: Old Frisian hereng, Middle Dutch herinc, German Hering), of unknown origin, perhaps related to or influenced in form by Old English har "gray, hoar," from the color, or to Old High German heri "host, multitude" from its large schools.

French hareng, Italian aringa are from Germanic. The Battle of the Herrings (French bataille des harengs) is the popular name for the battle at Rouvrai, Feb. 12, 1492, fought in defense of a convoy of provisions, mostly herrings and other "lenten stuffe."

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1. The young of some kinds of herring are canned as sardines.: 有些种类的鲱鱼幼鱼可制成罐头.

3. Thousands of herring and crab are washed up on the beaches during every storm.: 每次暴风雨过后海滩上都会留下数不尽的鲱鱼和螃蟹。

4. As Dr Smith left he said that the inquiry was something of a red herring.: 史密斯博士离开时说这次调查只是为掩人耳目。

5. The warden took us to a vantage point on the slopes where we saw herring gulls on the rocks below.: 管理员把我们带到斜坡上的一处有利位置，我们从那里看到了下面岩石上的银鸥。