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词汇 sardine
释义 sardine
noun[ C ]
uk /sɑːˈdiːn/ us /sɑːrˈdiːn/
a small sea fish that can be eaten: 黍鲱,西鲱(一种小海鱼,可食用)
a tin of sardines一罐沙丁鱼
 
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Idiom


packed/squashed like sardines

sardine | American Dictionary


sardine
noun[ C ]
us/sɑrˈdin/
a small, edible fish, often packed in large numbers in flat metal containers:
The train was so crowded, we were packed in like sardines (= too close together).

Examples of sardine


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Cladocerans, when present in sufficient numbers (rainy season), were consumed by juvenile sardines, whereas they occurred more rarely in the d iet o f l arvae.
The results show an overwhelming dominance of copepods in the d iet o f both stages o f young sardines, whichever the season or phase of the lunar cycle.
Pedestrians who wished to cross stood sardined on the brink.
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The fact is that the sardines will have no say in the management of drainage matters, which are of considerable importance to them.
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Would not a reduction of fares be more appropriate seeing that travellers are now packed like sardines instead of like human beings?
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Sardines were included in the previous allocation and will be included in the next one.
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They suffer not only the financial penalties of living where they do but the indignities of being packed in like sardines at peak hours.
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The latter matters are nothing to do with the negotiations now going on about tomato purée and canned sardines.
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The sedentary worker, who is in the higher income group, will get two, three, four or five tins of extra sardines a week.
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The wife of the roundsman will have to give up any claim to sardines.
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A substantial quantity of sardines was recently released and will be in the shops during the present rationing period.
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People may still have to be packed like sardines—but let us have sitting sardines instead of standing sardines.
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Both plat-forms were dangerously crowded and the trains were only fit for sardines.
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I have no information as to the quantity of sardines in 5 kilograms containers still in this country.
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He says that working-class housekeepers should provide food defence by storing up sardines, pilchards and bottles of water.
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