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

bottom-feeder n. (a) a fish or other aquatic animal which feeds at the bottom of a body of water; (b) figurative (depreciative) a lowly or worthless person, esp. an opportunistic, lazy, or self-serving person.In figurative use typically with reference to the scavenging behaviour of some bottom-feeding animals.

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1851 P. H. Gosse Nat. Hist.: Fishes 80 Some genera have several finger-like rays..; which probably serve them as organs of touch..that are indispensable in the situations where they haunt, as bottom feeders.

1898 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 6 400 It is probable that the forms were bottom feeders, and that the common food was the abundant molluscan fauna of the Devonian seas.

1980 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 July 13/1 All those people we knew at Andover with more money and better families than God—where are they? Why aren't they running the country instead of a bunch of bottom-feeders?

1986 J. Friedman Pross & Pimps in Tales of Time Square (1993) 161 Carmen deals only with streetwalkers, bottom feeders in the hierarchy of hookers.

1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 18 July e4/2 Another fear is heavy metals, which..pose threats to worms, crabs and other bottom-feeders.

2005 Independent 1 July 38/2 What happened to turn us from a nation of empire-builders to a nation of bottom-feeders?

单词	bottom-feeder
释义	> as lemmas bottom-feeder bottom-feeder n. (a) a fish or other aquatic animal which feeds at the bottom of a body of water; (b) figurative (depreciative) a lowly or worthless person, esp. an opportunistic, lazy, or self-serving person.In figurative use typically with reference to the scavenging behaviour of some bottom-feeding animals. ΚΠ 1851 P. H. Gosse Nat. Hist.: Fishes 80 Some genera have several finger-like rays..; which probably serve them as organs of touch..that are indispensable in the situations where they haunt, as bottom feeders. 1898 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 6 400 It is probable that the forms were bottom feeders, and that the common food was the abundant molluscan fauna of the Devonian seas. 1980 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 July 13/1 All those people we knew at Andover with more money and better families than God—where are they? Why aren't they running the country instead of a bunch of bottom-feeders? 1986 J. Friedman Pross & Pimps in Tales of Time Square (1993) 161 Carmen deals only with streetwalkers, bottom feeders in the hierarchy of hookers. 1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 18 July e4/2 Another fear is heavy metals, which..pose threats to worms, crabs and other bottom-feeders. 2005 Independent 1 July 38/2 What happened to turn us from a nation of empire-builders to a nation of bottom-feeders? extracted from bottomn.adj. < as lemmas
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