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/prɒːn/ · /prɔːn/
a small sea animal with a shell and a lot of legs, which turns pink when it is cooked and is eaten as food.
蝦子；明蝦
複數 prawns
核心畫面
Picture a small sea creature curled inside a thin shell, with many little legs and long — grey and see-through in the water, turning pink the moment it is cooked, and eaten with the shell pulled off.
一隻小小的海裡生物，身上包著一層薄殼，底下密密排著細腳，前面還有長長的觸鬚。活的時候是灰灰半透明的，一下鍋就轉成粉紅…更多收起
一隻小小的海裡生物，身上包著一層薄殼，底下密密排著細腳，前面還有長長的觸鬚。活的時候是灰灰半透明的，一下鍋就轉成粉紅色——那個顏色變化幾乎是這個字給人的第一印象。吃的時候把殼剝掉。值得記一下的是英式英語裡 prawn 是最常用的說法，美式英語同樣的東西多半講 shrimp；兩個字指的常常是同一盤菜，差別在說話的人來自哪裡，而不在生物本身。原始詞典資料6 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。
prawnnoun詞源 1/pɹɔːn/
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A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
- The aphrodisiac nature of prawns is evident in an epigram by the Greek poet Asclepiades.
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A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
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derogatorySynonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- She's a prawn!
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slangA fool, an idiot.
- This is utter dribble. I've not read much worse than this in a long time - and he admits he doesn't know - "or so I am told". Get real, you prawn.
- He didn't say he was accused of that, prawn.
prawnverb詞源 1/pɹɔːn/
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To fish for prawns.
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。