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A creel is a basket a fisher uses to carry fish after catching them.
A creel魚簍 is是 a fisher漁夫 after catching them抓到魚後 uses用來 to carry fish裝魚 a basket的籃子
It often hangs on the back or sits against the hip, and it may have a lid and small holes so the fish stay cool and damp.
It它 often常常 hangs on the back掛在背後 or或 sits against the hip靠在腰間 and而且 it may have也可能有 a lid蓋子 and和 small holes小洞 so the fish stay cool and damp讓魚保持涼爽潮濕
You meet the word in talk and stories about rivers, trout, and country fishing, not in city shops. It feels old and specialised: a tool-name that fishers share.
in talk and stories about rivers, trout, and country fishing在談論河流、鱒魚和鄉間釣魚的話語和故事裡 you你 meet會遇到 the word這個字 not而不是 in city shops在城市商店裡。 It它 feels給人的感覺是 old and specialised老派而專業的 a tool-name that fishers share漁夫之間共用的工具名稱
Though actually, in some coastal places a creel is also a cage you sink into the sea to trap lobsters — still a fisher’s thing, but it stays in the water instead of coming home on your back.
Though actually不過其實 in some coastal places在一些沿海地方 a creel魚簍 is also也指 you sink into the sea你沉入海裡 to trap lobsters用來捕龍蝦 a cage的一種籠子 still仍然 a fisher's thing是漁夫的東西 but但 it stays in the water它留在水裡 instead of coming home on your back而不是背回家
If “creel” draws a blank look, people just say fish basket.
If如果 "creel"講「creel」 draws a blank look別人聽不懂 people大家 just say就直接說 fish basket魚籃
組成From Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, a variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula, a small grid or grate. The “possibly” matters: that French path is not certain.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Creelname
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A surname.
creelnoun詞源 1/kɹiːl/
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A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
- For this purpose they got an old creel to put him in and some straw to light under it. Seeing the serious turn matters were likely to take, he resolved not to await the trial, but flew up the smoke-hole, and when at the top he cried out that things would have gone very differently with them had it not been for the arrival of their guests.
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fishinghobbieslifestyleA woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
- Return with a creel of trout for supper.
- Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh, Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers
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historicalA woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
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historicalA woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
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businessmanufacturingtextilesA bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
creelverb詞源 1/kɹiːl/
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To place (fish) in a creel.
creelverb詞源 2/kɹiːl/
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To wrench or sprain.
- For aught that appears in the record, plaintiff's fall was due entirely to the fact that his foot "creeled," and no one can say that his injuries were not due to the fall, but to the fact that he rolled down the embankment. […] he stepped around, and in doing so "creeled his foot in some way" and fell down the embankment, […]
- […] a "creeled foot " strapped to relieve strained muscles, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。