| 释义 |
ˈseafood orig. and chiefly U.S.
Food obtained from the sea; fish, crustacea, etc., used as food. Freq. attrib.
1836Knickerbocker VIII. 423 She said that she had come to Screamy Point to get ‘sea-food’. 1906N.Y. Even. Post 10 Mar. 5 Up State residents are among the best customers of the sea food, fruit and produce dealers. 1927Weekly Dispatch 1 May 1/2 The correct name of the Poydras levee [at New Orleans] is the Carnavon levee, so named by the Carnavon family in England, who built it in 1870 to protect the plantation and seafood packing plant they then owned. 1935A. Baugh Hist. Eng. Lang. xi. 462 A writer in the London Daily Mail recently complained that an Englishman would find ‘positively incomprehensible’ the American words..sea-food,..and hired-girl. 1944T. Barbour That Vanishing Eden 166, I was dining with some friends at a popular seafood restaurant in Miami. 1953J. Hilton Time & Time Again i. 6 ‘I hope you like sea-food.’.. ‘Sea-food?.. Fish, that is? Oh yes, I do, indeed.’ (..True enough, though this ‘sea-food’ set Charles thinking that he also enjoyed ‘land⁓food’.) 1965H. Gold Man who was not with It iii. xxv. 234 Grack's contact man cooked in a diner on the seafood coast of Baltimore. 1978K. Hudson Jargon of Professions iii. 82 Twenty or thirty years ago..fish was upgraded to seafood. |