| 单词 | school fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasschool fish school fish n. chiefly North American, New Zealand, and Australian any of various fishes which habitually school or shoal; (also) a fish that is present or found in a school. ΚΠ 1860 G. Suckley in Rep. Explor. & Surv. Railroad Route (U.S. War Dept.) XII. ii. 363 According to Mr. Geo. Gibbs, the principal species of small ‘school-fish’ which frequent Puget Sound are of four kinds. 1873 Argus Suppl. (Melbourne) 1 Feb. 1/2 He never hooks a school fish, because they never leave the open sea, and he never leaves the bay. 1874 New S. Wales Rep. Royal. Comm. Fisheries (1880) 10 The ordinary schnapper, or count fish, implies that all of a certain size are to count as twelve to the dozen, the shoal or school-fish, eighteen or twenty-four to the dozen. 1947 A. W. B. Powell Native Animals N.Z. 67 School Trevally is a common school fish in North Auckland waters. 1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Feb. 4/1 He is not one of those press-the-flesh professional politicians..who plunge into crowds like porpoises into school fish. < as lemmas |
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