n. an Atlantic sea-fish used as food 鯖魚。
△1H.IV.2.4. 399 (359): “You may buy land now ascheap as stinking mackerel.” (Land may be cheap be-cause people fear that a civil strife will arise and areeager to turn their estates into money.) 現(xiàn)在你可以買地,就像買臭魚一樣便宜。
mackerel鯖
重要的食用魚和游釣魚。鱸形目鯖科,世界性分布。食魚及無脊椎動物。體呈流線形,具兩扇背鰭。叉形尾前具一系列小鰭,可同時游動。普通鯖(Scomber scombrus)為大西洋主要盛產(chǎn)種類,體長約30厘米,上側(cè)藍(lán)綠色、下側(cè)銀白色。
mackerel[?m?kr?l]
n.鯖
◇a sprat to catch a mackerel用小魚釣大魚,吃小虧占大便宜