英语词汇“bottom-dweller”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bottom-dweller n. (a) a fish or other aquatic organism whose natural habitat is at or near the bottom of a body of water; (b) figurative (frequently depreciative) a person, group of people, institution, etc., occupying the lowest levels in a given ranking or hierarchy.In figurative use typically with reference to the scavenging behaviour of some bottom-dwelling animals.

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1878 Encycl. Brit. VII. 279 Besides these bottom-dwellers, the trawl nets at different depths showed that the ocean is inhabited by peculiar tribes of free-swimmers—principally Copepoda, Amphipoda, and Cypridinas.

1953 Life 30 Nov. 90/1 Most bottom dwellers live engulfed in food and have little more to do than open their mouths. If they have mouths.

1989 Orange County (Calif.) Register 9 May f2/1 The tongue-in-cheek detective show, which soared to the heights of the ratings and is now a bottom-dweller in the Nielsen figures.., will present its final original episode Sunday.

2008 H. Kellenberger All About Drawing Sea Creatures & Animals 46 A bottom-dweller, the stingray has a thin, flat body that allows it to both hide in the sand and glide through the water.

2011 S. Benesh View from Urban Loft iv. 35 For the rest of us, we were left as bottom-dwellers catching any scrap of attention that fell in front of us.

单词	bottom-dweller
释义	> as lemmas bottom-dweller bottom-dweller n. (a) a fish or other aquatic organism whose natural habitat is at or near the bottom of a body of water; (b) figurative (frequently depreciative) a person, group of people, institution, etc., occupying the lowest levels in a given ranking or hierarchy.In figurative use typically with reference to the scavenging behaviour of some bottom-dwelling animals. ΚΠ 1878 Encycl. Brit. VII. 279 Besides these bottom-dwellers, the trawl nets at different depths showed that the ocean is inhabited by peculiar tribes of free-swimmers—principally Copepoda, Amphipoda, and Cypridinas. 1953 Life 30 Nov. 90/1 Most bottom dwellers live engulfed in food and have little more to do than open their mouths. If they have mouths. 1989 Orange County (Calif.) Register 9 May f2/1 The tongue-in-cheek detective show, which soared to the heights of the ratings and is now a bottom-dweller in the Nielsen figures.., will present its final original episode Sunday. 2008 H. Kellenberger All About Drawing Sea Creatures & Animals 46 A bottom-dweller, the stingray has a thin, flat body that allows it to both hide in the sand and glide through the water. 2011 S. Benesh View from Urban Loft iv. 35 For the rest of us, we were left as bottom-dwellers catching any scrap of attention that fell in front of us. extracted from bottomn.adj. < as lemmas
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