- 1
Kippered describes herring, or sometimes other fish, that has been salted and smoked in that special way — so a kippered herring is the same food people also just call a . You will see it on packets and menus: kippered herring, kippered snacks. It is really the past form of the verb to , used as a describing word: the fish has been kippered. Though actually, in loose talk people sometimes other fish too, but the classic thing is herring. It does not mean the fish is old or damaged; it means it was preserved on purpose, split, salted, and smoked until it keeps.
燻製的(鯡魚)
組成The -ed form of kipper: fish that has been kippered (salted and smoked). Same origin as kipper: Old English cypera, 'male salmon'.
同家族的字
- kipperthe noun and the verb this form comes from
原始詞典資料3 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。
kipperedadj
- 1
Stiff and lacking vitality; stale.
- Our writers of history have been aroused from “ their somnolent antiquarian busy-work on kippered events and are feeling the force of living ones and learning what it means to get in the study of the present inspiration and interest for assimilating a knowledge of the past.
- At first I thought perhaps my students were writing this kind of kippered prose because they were attempting scenes and subjects that they knew nothing about.
- 2
Worn out; tired.
- Cigar clenched between his knuckles, Johnnie Whiteside patted Gordon's knee. 'How d'you feel, old spud?' 'Slightly kippered,' Gordon answered. 'Not too kippered?' said Eric.
- He was done for, you know . . . quite kippered . . . The General's words dinned in his brain.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。