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A pilchard is a small sea fish that people eat. It is , silver, and lives in schools. In shops you often meet it , sometimes in tomato sauce — a very ordinary British food word, not formal and not slang. Though actually, sardine and pilchard are close, and countries do not all draw the line in the same place: some people use pilchard for the bigger adult fish and sardine for the smaller one, but tins and recipes mix the names. You would not use it for a large fish.
沙丁魚（常和 sardine 指同一類；較大隻的有人叫 pilchard）
組成From an older English form pilcher, later reshaped with the ending -ard (the same kind of ending as in drunkard). Where pilcher itself came from, nobody really knows. Dutch has a similar-looking word, pelser.
原始詞典資料1 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。
pilchardnoun/ˈpɪl.tʃəd/
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Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.
- 1839, John Hookham Frere (translator), The Birds, lines 76–77, in Acharnians and two other plays He longs occasionally for human diet, His old Athenian fare: pilchards, for instance.
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。