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

bottom-dwelling adj. (a) (of a fish or other aquatic organism) that lives at or near the bottom of a body of water; bottom-living; (also) designating this behaviour; (b) figurative (depreciative) lowly, worthless; esp. lazy; opportunistic and self-serving; exploitative.Cf. bottom-feeding adj. In figurative use typically with reference to the scavenging behaviour of some bottom-dwelling animals.

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1879 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 2 878 One [sc. of two marine worms] is small, agile, and free swimming, and the other large, slow, and bottom-dwelling.

1881 Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci. 5 403 Most of the living specimens were young, but large ones were often taken from the stomachs of bottom-dwelling fishes, in the same region.

1918 Econ. Circular No. 34 (U.S. Bureau Fisheries) 2 Skates and rays..are all characterized by flat bodies adapted to a bottom-dwelling habit.

1973 Washington Post 6 June a19/2 The self-serving allegations of a bottom-dwelling slug like Dean are now widely taken to prove the President guilty of a crime.

1994 P. Wallace Deadly Devotion v. 47 Happy Trails, you bottom-dwelling, scum-sucking bastard.

2010 R. Reid Shark! ii. xii. 141 This shark..hunts bottom-dwelling fish in deeper water.

单词	bottom-dwelling
释义	> as lemmas bottom-dwelling bottom-dwelling adj. (a) (of a fish or other aquatic organism) that lives at or near the bottom of a body of water; bottom-living; (also) designating this behaviour; (b) figurative (depreciative) lowly, worthless; esp. lazy; opportunistic and self-serving; exploitative.Cf. bottom-feeding adj. In figurative use typically with reference to the scavenging behaviour of some bottom-dwelling animals. ΚΠ 1879 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 2 878 One [sc. of two marine worms] is small, agile, and free swimming, and the other large, slow, and bottom-dwelling. 1881 Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci. 5 403 Most of the living specimens were young, but large ones were often taken from the stomachs of bottom-dwelling fishes, in the same region. 1918 Econ. Circular No. 34 (U.S. Bureau Fisheries) 2 Skates and rays..are all characterized by flat bodies adapted to a bottom-dwelling habit. 1973 Washington Post 6 June a19/2 The self-serving allegations of a bottom-dwelling slug like Dean are now widely taken to prove the President guilty of a crime. 1994 P. Wallace Deadly Devotion v. 47 Happy Trails, you bottom-dwelling, scum-sucking bastard. 2010 R. Reid Shark! ii. xii. 141 This shark..hunts bottom-dwelling fish in deeper water. extracted from bottomn.adj. < as lemmas
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