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单词 shark
释义

shark1

noun ʃɑːkʃɑrk
  • 1A long-bodied chiefly marine fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, a prominent dorsal fin, and toothlike scales. Most sharks are predatory, although the largest kinds feed on plankton, and some can grow to a large size.

    鲨,鲛

    Several orders (or superorders) of the subclass Elasmobranchii: many families

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Learn what you can do to help elephants, whales, sharks, parrots and other wildlife.
    • The tour featured such media stunts as donning a wetsuit to swim with sharks in an aquarium tank, hugging a piglet in a shopping centre and donning hard hats on construction sites.
    • In the process, the shark also takes the old man's harpoon and rope.
    • The third aquarium would house more than 50 species of freshwater sharks and rays, as well as enclosures for Komodo dragons and giant tortoises.
    • This shark has a very slender body and a characteristic long tail.
    • This shark feeds primarily on bony fishes such as parrot, trigger, squirrel, surgeon, damsel and goat fishes as well as eels.
    • You can even dive with sharks at the Aquarium if you are a qualified diver.
    • The breeding ground site is in the shallows, where it is difficult for male sharks to initiate mating.
    • According to aquarium staff, sharks are not the ocean's deadliest predator.
    • That appetite could spell trouble for humans who enter the same coastal and freshwater areas as the sharks.
    • Given this requirement, most sharks cannot enter fresh water, because their internal salt levels would become diluted.
    • We tied a rope to the tail of the shark and put it on the hook of the caterpillar machine.
    • The birth surprised researchers, as the mother had not been in contact with a male shark for six years.
    • The male sharks enter the cove with considerably more speed, driven by their single-minded drive to mate.
    • Great white sharks can grow as long as 5 meters and weigh 2,500 kilos.
    • Scuba diving and snorkelling among the exotic fish, dolphins, rays and sharks is hugely popular.
    • The upper lobe of the shark's tail, however, is larger than the lower lobe.
    • Having slender bodies and long tails, these sharks can easily glide between coral branches and hide in tight reef structures.
    • And it's even possible to buy an island in the waters of Lake Nicaragua, famed for its freshwater sharks.
    • How did a shark in a Detroit aquarium give birth if she hadn't been near a male for six years?
  • 2A small SE Asian freshwater fish with a tail resembling that of a shark, popular in aquaria.

    鲨尾鱼

    Two species in the family Cyprinidae: the small red-tailed black shark (Labeo bicolor), and the larger black shark (Morulius chrysophekadion)

  • 3A light greyish-brown European moth, the male of which has pale silvery hindwings.

    冬夜蛾

    Genus Cucullia, family Noctuidae: several species

verb ʃɑːk
[no object]British informal
  • (typically of a man at a social gathering) be in active pursuit of a sexual partner.

    〈英,非正式〉(多指男子在社交场合中)努力追逐性伴侣

    as soon as he arrived he was sharking among the women

    他一到,就在女士中寻找追逐的对象。

Origin

Late Middle English: of unknown origin.

  • We do not know where the name for the fish comes from, but it is thought that the shark as in loan shark may be from German Schurke ‘worthless rogue’, influenced by the zoological term. Shirk (mid 17th century) originally meaning a scrounger, may be from the same German word. The sense ‘avoid work’ dates from the late 18th century.

Rhymes

arc, ark, Bach, bark, barque, Braque, Clark, clerk, dark, embark, hark, impark, Iraq, Ladakh, Lamarck, lark, macaque, marc, mark, marque, narc, nark, Newark, park, quark, sark, snark, spark, stark, Vlach

shark2

nounʃɑːkʃɑrk
informal
  • 1A person who unscrupulously exploits or swindles others.

    贪婪狡猾的人;敲诈勒索者;骗子

    property sharks want to develop 200 acres around the site

    那些贪婪狡猾的房地产开发商想在那块地周围开发200英亩土地。参见LOAN SHARK。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of these treasure-seekers have been conned, not paid by the city sharks for years.
    • They are the cyber-era equivalents of highwaymen, sharks, cheesy protection racketeers.
    • Deals of all sorts will be cut before this election ends here in the home of the sharps and sharks who have been cutting all sorts of deals for more than a century.
    • The forwards, ie, the sharks of the political underworld are opportunists but each with a different strength.
    • Their biggest fear now are the sharks of overhype.
    • Scott is the Roger Dodger of the film's title, a shark, a venomous, unpleasant, conniving, self-consciously chauvinistic pig.
    • It is a scentless, unappealing botanical fraud sold by sharks to suckers.
    • But is there an alternative to calling in the sharks when people steal your stuff?
    • People in York mostly think that estate agents are a rip-off, greedy, corrupt, or that they are cowboys or sharks.
    • Welcome though this urban regeneration will be, now is probably your last chance to spot a kingfisher down by Bow Bridge, before the property sharks move in.
    • At the same time I had sharks, parasites and con artists turning up, all trying to get a piece of the action.
    • But while property sharks may be kicking up their heels, small-time Plateau landowners and their tenants are bearing the brunt.
    • His latest is an ensemble piece, set in an undeveloped beach front community in Florida, where the old ways are beginning to atrophy, as property sharks circle.
    • She is solid, dependable and middle-class - up against corrupt corporate sharks.
    • In water-starved Bangalore, lakes on its outskirts are not just neglected but turn prime property for land sharks.
    • As a result of corruption, usually big sharks escape and poor retailers get punished.
    • I wish the money-hungry media sharks all too eager to exploit and enforce stereotypes to fill up their wallets would see that.
    • A simple fraud statute seemed like a good way to swat down small-time sharks and keep the field open for themselves.
  • 2US An expert in a specified field.

    〈美〉能手,专家

    a pool shark

    一位可怜的专家。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Karaoke in a place like this fits right in next to the dudes watching the game on the tube and the pool sharks getting busy upstairs.
    • If you can work in scoring with the pool shark's wife, you're a true master of revenge.
    • I have seen him, at the card table, con enormous sums out of experienced game sharks.
    • There are three skill levels including Novice, Intermediate and Expert, a difficulty level that is sure to challenge even the best of the pool sharks.
    • He examines a rack of bars like a pool shark choosing a new cue.
    • A few unsavory types hung at the far end of the long dark bar, and a couple of sharks were playing pool in the side room.
    • However, if you take the time to get to know her, you'll quickly realize that there's much more than meets the eye beneath the surface of this pool shark.
    • A pool shark can hit a ball with a cue and predict with relative certainty where a whole bunch of balls will go on the table.
    • Even more interesting is the workarounds that user communities often find to do what they want to do, whether hardware makers or content sharks want them to or not.
    • And while this pool shark is one of the best, he's not what you think.
    • He became a ‘fence’ for stolen goods, a pool shark, and a hustler on the midway.
    • He has sprinter's speed, a card shark's confidence and playmaker's knack for action.
    • Preston, a pool shark, once beat singer Willie Nelson for $300,000 in dominoes.

Origin

Late 16th century: perhaps from German Schurke 'worthless rogue', influenced by shark1.

shark1

nounʃɑrkSHärk
  • 1A long-bodied chiefly marine fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, a prominent dorsal fin, and toothlike scales. Most sharks are predatory, although the largest kinds feed on plankton, and some can grow to a large size.

    鲨,鲛

    Several orders (or superorders) of the subclass Elasmobranchii: many families

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Scuba diving and snorkelling among the exotic fish, dolphins, rays and sharks is hugely popular.
    • Given this requirement, most sharks cannot enter fresh water, because their internal salt levels would become diluted.
    • The tour featured such media stunts as donning a wetsuit to swim with sharks in an aquarium tank, hugging a piglet in a shopping centre and donning hard hats on construction sites.
    • The breeding ground site is in the shallows, where it is difficult for male sharks to initiate mating.
    • In the process, the shark also takes the old man's harpoon and rope.
    • That appetite could spell trouble for humans who enter the same coastal and freshwater areas as the sharks.
    • The male sharks enter the cove with considerably more speed, driven by their single-minded drive to mate.
    • According to aquarium staff, sharks are not the ocean's deadliest predator.
    • And it's even possible to buy an island in the waters of Lake Nicaragua, famed for its freshwater sharks.
    • We tied a rope to the tail of the shark and put it on the hook of the caterpillar machine.
    • The third aquarium would house more than 50 species of freshwater sharks and rays, as well as enclosures for Komodo dragons and giant tortoises.
    • This shark feeds primarily on bony fishes such as parrot, trigger, squirrel, surgeon, damsel and goat fishes as well as eels.
    • How did a shark in a Detroit aquarium give birth if she hadn't been near a male for six years?
    • The birth surprised researchers, as the mother had not been in contact with a male shark for six years.
    • Learn what you can do to help elephants, whales, sharks, parrots and other wildlife.
    • Having slender bodies and long tails, these sharks can easily glide between coral branches and hide in tight reef structures.
    • You can even dive with sharks at the Aquarium if you are a qualified diver.
    • Great white sharks can grow as long as 5 meters and weigh 2,500 kilos.
    • The upper lobe of the shark's tail, however, is larger than the lower lobe.
    • This shark has a very slender body and a characteristic long tail.
  • 2A small Southeast Asian freshwater fish with a tail resembling that of a shark, popular in aquaria.

    鲨尾鱼

    Two species in the family Cyprinidae: the small red-tailed black shark (Labeo bicolor), and the larger black shark (Morulius chrysophekadion)

  • 3A light grayish-brown European moth, the male of which has pale silvery hind wings.

    冬夜蛾

    Genus Cucullia, family Noctuidae: several species, including C. umbratica

Origin

Late Middle English: of unknown origin.

shark2

nounʃɑrkSHärk
informal
  • 1A person who unscrupulously exploits or swindles others.

    贪婪狡猾的人;敲诈勒索者;骗子

    property sharks want to develop 200 acres around the site

    那些贪婪狡猾的房地产开发商想在那块地周围开发200英亩土地。参见LOAN SHARK。

    See also loan shark
    Coleby was a shark, not the sort of man to pay more when he could pay less

    科尔比是一个贪婪狡猾的人,可以少付钱时决不会多付。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Welcome though this urban regeneration will be, now is probably your last chance to spot a kingfisher down by Bow Bridge, before the property sharks move in.
    • The forwards, ie, the sharks of the political underworld are opportunists but each with a different strength.
    • It is a scentless, unappealing botanical fraud sold by sharks to suckers.
    • I wish the money-hungry media sharks all too eager to exploit and enforce stereotypes to fill up their wallets would see that.
    • Deals of all sorts will be cut before this election ends here in the home of the sharps and sharks who have been cutting all sorts of deals for more than a century.
    • But is there an alternative to calling in the sharks when people steal your stuff?
    • Their biggest fear now are the sharks of overhype.
    • Scott is the Roger Dodger of the film's title, a shark, a venomous, unpleasant, conniving, self-consciously chauvinistic pig.
    • Some of these treasure-seekers have been conned, not paid by the city sharks for years.
    • People in York mostly think that estate agents are a rip-off, greedy, corrupt, or that they are cowboys or sharks.
    • At the same time I had sharks, parasites and con artists turning up, all trying to get a piece of the action.
    • They are the cyber-era equivalents of highwaymen, sharks, cheesy protection racketeers.
    • She is solid, dependable and middle-class - up against corrupt corporate sharks.
    • In water-starved Bangalore, lakes on its outskirts are not just neglected but turn prime property for land sharks.
    • But while property sharks may be kicking up their heels, small-time Plateau landowners and their tenants are bearing the brunt.
    • A simple fraud statute seemed like a good way to swat down small-time sharks and keep the field open for themselves.
    • His latest is an ensemble piece, set in an undeveloped beach front community in Florida, where the old ways are beginning to atrophy, as property sharks circle.
    • As a result of corruption, usually big sharks escape and poor retailers get punished.
  • 2US An expert in a specified field.

    〈美〉能手,专家

    a pool shark

    一位可怜的专家。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A pool shark can hit a ball with a cue and predict with relative certainty where a whole bunch of balls will go on the table.
    • Karaoke in a place like this fits right in next to the dudes watching the game on the tube and the pool sharks getting busy upstairs.
    • And while this pool shark is one of the best, he's not what you think.
    • There are three skill levels including Novice, Intermediate and Expert, a difficulty level that is sure to challenge even the best of the pool sharks.
    • However, if you take the time to get to know her, you'll quickly realize that there's much more than meets the eye beneath the surface of this pool shark.
    • A few unsavory types hung at the far end of the long dark bar, and a couple of sharks were playing pool in the side room.
    • He became a ‘fence’ for stolen goods, a pool shark, and a hustler on the midway.
    • He has sprinter's speed, a card shark's confidence and playmaker's knack for action.
    • He examines a rack of bars like a pool shark choosing a new cue.
    • If you can work in scoring with the pool shark's wife, you're a true master of revenge.
    • I have seen him, at the card table, con enormous sums out of experienced game sharks.
    • Preston, a pool shark, once beat singer Willie Nelson for $300,000 in dominoes.
    • Even more interesting is the workarounds that user communities often find to do what they want to do, whether hardware makers or content sharks want them to or not.

Origin

Late 16th century: perhaps from German Schurke ‘worthless rogue’, influenced by shark.

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