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 shrimp [ʃrimp]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 虾, 小虾, 矮子

vi. 捕小虾




    shrimp
    [ noun ]
    1. disparaging terms for small people

    2. <noun.person>
    3. any of various edible decapod crustaceans

    4. <noun.food>
    5. small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

    6. <noun.animal>
    [ verb ]
    1. fish for shrimp

    2. <verb.competition>


    Shrimp \Shrimp\, n. [OE. shrimp; -- probably so named from its
    shriveled appearance. See {Shrimp}, v.]
    1. (Zo["o]l.)
    (a) Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea
    belonging to {Crangon} and various allied genera,
    having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are
    used as food. The larger kinds are called also
    {prawns}. See Illust. of {Decapoda}.
    (b) In a more general sense, any species of the macruran
    tribe {Caridea}, or any species of the order
    Schizopoda, having a similar form.
    (c) In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some
    amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the
    fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under {Fairy}, and
    {Brine}.

    2. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in
    contempt.

    This weak and writhled shrimp. --Shak.

    {Opossum shrimp}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Opossum}.

    {Spector shrimp}, or {Skeleton shrimp} (Zo["o]l.), any
    slender amphipod crustacean of the genus {Caprella} and
    allied genera. See Illust. under {L[ae]modopoda}.

    {Shrimp catcher} (Zo["o]l.), the little tern ({Sterna
    minuta}).

    {Shrimp net}, a dredge net fixed upon a pole, or a sweep net
    dragged over the fishing ground.


    Shrimp \Shrimp\, v. t. [Cf. AS. scrimman to dry up, wither, MHG.
    schrimpfen to shrink, G. schrumpfen, Dan. skrumpe, skrumpes,
    Da. & Sw. skrumpen shriveled. Cf. {Scrimp}, {Shrink},
    {Shrivel}.]
    To contract; to shrink. [Obs.]

    1. Feed costs are one of the shrimp farmer's biggest costs.
    2. Sessions said, however, that he agreed with the Customs Service that peeling and deveining imported shrimp does not constitute a "substantial transformation" of the product.
    3. Paul Christian, a biologist with the Marine Extension Center who began documenting catches and doing research on the giant tigers in August, said the imported shrimp are not as inclined to eat their own kind as native white shrimp.
    4. Paul Christian, a biologist with the Marine Extension Center who began documenting catches and doing research on the giant tigers in August, said the imported shrimp are not as inclined to eat their own kind as native white shrimp.
    5. They go anywhere they hear the shrimp are.
    6. Imported shrimp worth $1.7 billion accounted for more than 75 percent of all shrimp consumed in the United States in 1988, Wolfe said.
    7. Imported shrimp worth $1.7 billion accounted for more than 75 percent of all shrimp consumed in the United States in 1988, Wolfe said.
    8. A businessman remembered simply as The Chinaman, the lagoon's last success story, dried and exported shrimp.
    9. The Baxters ran wet fish shops, five large restaurants, fishing boats and a famous potted shrimp business. As a lad, Bob Baxter used to look on to a bay filled with more than 100 small fishing boats; on my visit there were just six.
    10. The state Health Department imposed a fishing ban Thursday because of fears that fish, shrimp and other marine life could be contaminated by the spill.
    11. The FDA sampling found listeria monocytogenes in the shrimp, a bacteria that can call listeriosis, a normally brief ailment with mild-to-moderate flu-like symptoms such as fever, headaches and vomiting.
    12. A clash between villagers and police over a shrimp cultivation project resulted in the death of a policeman and a schoolteacher, police said Saturday.
    13. Consider the contrast with Houston, where summit diners today are feasting on mounds of luscious raspberries and rows of fresh shrimp.
    14. And if they're hungry, Flower also offers catered foods _ from rolled slices of turkey, ham and roast beef to chilled shrimp and crab legs.
    15. We trawl for shrimp all around that piling," Authement said.
    16. "We learned how to complain from great teachers, the French," says a Paris-educated Algerian editor, finishing his fresh shrimp and baby squid lunch at a seafront restaurant in Algiers.
    17. The agent paid Carpenter $20,000 in campaign contributions as a payoff for Carpenter's help in getting a bill through the Senate to finance a fictitious shrimp business.
    18. Brown shrimp harvested in the summer bring in 10 to 20 percent of the annual crop.
    19. Mr Steven Chia is euphoric about his latest shrimp venture.
    20. In one corner, a man with shoulder-length hair whipped out boxes of frozen shrimp and began doing a quick business.
    21. Sole, rockfish and sablefish _ which are eaten by humans _ feed on worms and tiny shrimp that feed in these sediments and are most likely accumulating the radioactivity, scientists say.
    22. In Georgia, state biologists fear that recent freezing coastal temperatures will mean no chance for a healthy shrimp season next year _ more bad news for a shrimping industry already reeling from a poor fall crop and low prices.
    23. Environmentalists have argued that such assertions are wrong and that at worst only about 2 percent of the shrimp catch is affected, and possibly less if the TEDs are used properly.
    24. He said the quality of exported shrimp had not been affected as the disease only attacks the larval stage. The coastal area of Taura has been hit hardest, with several shrimp farms having to close and about 7,000 tonnes of shrimp lost.
    25. He said the quality of exported shrimp had not been affected as the disease only attacks the larval stage. The coastal area of Taura has been hit hardest, with several shrimp farms having to close and about 7,000 tonnes of shrimp lost.
    26. He said the quality of exported shrimp had not been affected as the disease only attacks the larval stage. The coastal area of Taura has been hit hardest, with several shrimp farms having to close and about 7,000 tonnes of shrimp lost.
    27. John Sheppard of the Louisiana attorney general's office argued that the TEDs reduce the shrimp catch and do little to protect endangered sea turtles.
    28. Previous studies show 11,000 sea turtles die in shrimp nets every year, including 3,000 in the Gulf of Mexico.
    29. The unpigmented inch-long shrimp resembles the grass shrimp often found along Florida rivers, but lacks eyes because of its underground existence.
    30. The unpigmented inch-long shrimp resembles the grass shrimp often found along Florida rivers, but lacks eyes because of its underground existence.
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