| 词汇 | sprat |
| 释义 | sprat noun[ C ] uk /spræt/ us /spræt/ a small sea fish that can be eaten黍鲱，西鲱（一种小海鱼，可食用） EddWestmacott/ iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Sea fish albacore American shad anchovy barracuda beluga eel elver flatfish flathead flounder orange roughy Pacific salmon pilchard pink salmon plaice sockeye salmon stickleback stingray stonefish striped bass Examples of spratsprat Any damage is accepted to trade for the sake of catching a few evading sprats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Pelagic fishing gear is normally used for shoaling mid-water swimming species such as mackerel, pilchards and sprats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With regard to pelagic fish—essentially herring, sprat and mackerel—there has been a serious decline in herring stocks, as we have all become aware. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Observers have been on vessels engaged in the anchovy, bass, herring, mackerel, pilchard, smelt and sprat fisheries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That may well interfere with the breeding stock of sprats and so put in jeopardy a species that, in certain ports, is very valuable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Licences have been freely granted for the export of sprats ever since the early days of export control. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The establishment of an overall limit on herring catches when fishing for sprat was admittedly a significant step in the process of reducing by-catches. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Small boats of forty feet and under, or boats fishing for mackerel, sprats, pilchards, herrings, shell fish or salmon will not have to be licensed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a prospect of an extension of these landings for fish meal manufacture, similar to the present landings of sprats and herring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was simply a sprat that caught the whale. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are wide annual fluctuations both in recruitment to the stocks of sprats and in their distribution and consequently in the number of boats engaged. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is significant that he used the word "sprat", indicaiting that he considers this an insignificant matter and of no importance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Canned sprats are described in the official import list as canned brisling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet the result of all these relations has been a veritable sprat of legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To use it as a sprat to entertain people and to try to get their interest is bad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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