| 释义 |
tai, n.1|taɪ|
Also † tay.
[Jap.]
A Pacific sea bream, Pagrus major, of the family Sparidæ, eaten as a speciality in Japan.
1620R. Cocks Let. 10 Mar. in Diary (1883) II. 311 Dried fish lyke a breame, called heare tay, in aboundance. 1727J. G. Scheuchzer tr. Kæmpfer's Hist. Japan I. i. 135 Tai, is what the Dutch in the Indies call Steenbrassem. This is very much esteem'd by the Japanese as the King of Fish. 1795tr. Thunberg's Trav. IV. 39 Among their valuable fishes is what they call the tay. 1884tr. Rein's Japan i. vii. 192 The Tai proper is a beautiful deep-red to brown-red gold-bream. 1920[see sashimi]. 1965W. Swaan Jap. Lantern iii. 41 The deep red and rather bloody-looking tai (a type of sea bream). |