crawfish

英 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

美 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

n.  螯虾

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柯林斯词典

• 淡水螯虾
  Acrawfishis a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 crayfish

英英释义

noun

• large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
  Synonym:spiny lobsterlangousterock lobstercrayfishsea crawfish
• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  Synonym:crayfishcrawdadcrawdaddy
• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
  Synonym:crayfishcrawdadecrevisse

verb

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
  1. We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
  2. He backed out of his earlier promise
  3. The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
  Synonym:retreatpull backback outback awaycrawfish outpull in one's hornswithdraw

双语例句

• Exports: fish and crawfish, rum, salt, chemicals, fruit and vegetables.
  出口：鱼和小龙虾，朗姆洒，盐，化工，水果蔬菜。
• Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo.
  还有什锦菜，秋葵肉片，小龙虾派。
• They lay their eggs in the winter and early spring and they grow all through the summer, so the ideal would be to have crawfish just in time for football season.
  他们在冬季和早春季节产卵，在整个夏季生长，所以，可以及时提供足球赛季的小龙虾。
• "It must be awful to dream of starvation after a seven-course dinner including that enormous crawfish."
  “晚饭吃了七道菜，包括一只大龙虾，夜里睡觉还要梦见挨饿，一定是非常可怕的。”
• Hazard analysis and its measures of prevention and control of chloramphenicol in crawfish
  淡水小龙虾氯霉素残留的危害分析和预防控制措施
• Their hard outer shell, called the exoskeleton, does not grow with the crawfish and is shed periodically.
  它们坚硬的外壳，叫做外骨骼，不会随着小龙虾的成长而生长，而会周期性蜕落。
• Louisiana State University Professor Greg Lutz has studied crawfish species and the industry for30 years.
  路易斯安那州立大学教授GregLutz研究小龙虾种类和该行业已经长达三十年代时间。
• Crawfish farmers in New Orleans use them for temperature control on the way to the market.
  向市场运送小龙虾的途中，新奥尔良农民使用它们来控制温度。
• We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him; he backed out of his earlier promise.
  我们必须要从见他的活动中撤退；他从他早些时候的。
• "We are looking at trying to extend the crawfish season," he said.
  我们正在努力延长这种小龙虾的生长季节。