英语释义

• flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

• a piece of paper money worth one dollar

• burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud

• gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

片语

clam down薄荷椰丝

few words沉默寡言的人，少言寡语的

purple clam西刀舌

clam face胆小鬼

clam juice蛤蜊汁

Hairy Clam毛蚶

sea clam海蛤

tong帮会，堂；钳子

clam patty蛤饼

clam warm沙蚕

Clamp Clam夹子

英汉例句

• the new clam is at least 30 years older, according to the bangor university team.

  而据斑戈大学研究小组的声明，这只新发现的蛤蜊则比它老了至少30岁。

• scientists set up a glass box with water and beads and stuck a living razor clam inside.

  科学家们设计了一个玻璃盒子，盒子里面装有水和沙粒，然后把一只活的剃刀蛤蚌放在里面。

• whenever bev walked by, roy got so nervous he would just clam up.

  每当bev走过时, roy总是紧张得说不出话来.

• the question instead is how come people would name a clam or mussel after a pig?

  现在的问题在于，为什么人们会用猪 （pig）来为蛤蜊或贻贝来命名？

• the rest of the clam followed by moving quickly up and down and rapidly opening and closing its shell.

  蛤蚌留在沙子外面的身体部分接着开始上下移动，并且迅速的开合它的贝壳。

• the movie star is a clam about her age.

  这影星对她的年龄守口如瓶.

• it「s often human nature for people to clam up when they」re having trouble doing their job, and certainly most developers don「t want to look bad in the eyes of their manager.

  当人们在工作中遇到问题时，他们通常绝口不提，这通常是人的本性。当然多数的开发人员不想让开发经理觉得他不能够完成分配的任务。

• it is uncannily similar in taste and look to new england clam chowder served in bread bowls.

  它的口味和样子与新英格兰的蛤杂烩惊人地相似，也是放在面包「碗」中。

• and we need them -- they are keystone species for everything from building coral reefs to anchoring the ocean food chain to making a killer linguine and clam sauce.

  而且我们也需要它们——它们是从建造珊瑚礁，到稳固海洋食物链，再到美味的蛤蜊酱意面的关键物种。

• a recent study on this ancient clam by dr iain ridgway from the university of bangor, which lives more than 400 years, shows it has an increased resistance to oxidative stress.

  威尔士班戈大学的iainridgway博士研究这个400多岁老寿星的结果是：圆蛤有超强的抗氧化能力。

• the barnacle and the clam are two examples of filter feeders.

  藤壶和蛤类是滤过觅食者的两种例子.

• everybody shuts up like a clam as soon as you mention it.

  你一提及此事,大家便都闭口不言.

• this extra oxygen flow will relax your body, clam your breathing, slow your heart rate, and allow your brain to resume rational thought.

  多呼入的氧气有助于放松身体，平稳呼吸，降低你心脏跳动的速率，从而保证你能够冷静的思考。

• you can」t talk with those peasants. they can clam up as well as the foreign office.

  你不能跟那些农民谈话. 他们象外交部一样,可能一点口气也不漏.

• but all this may soon change, as condos and coffee shops replace the clam bars and ghost trains on the valuable beachside sites.

  然而一旦地价不菲的海岸公寓大厦和咖啡店替换了蛤蜊酒吧和「鬼魂」火车，这一切或行将结束。

• you should not clam up on him.

  你不应该拒绝跟他谈话.

• you can「t clam up. and you don」t want to stutter and stammer. so what「s a job seeker to do?

  你不能沉默。而你又不想结结巴巴地说。那么，作为一个求职者这个时候应该怎么做呢？

• many types of clam escape predators by burrowing into the sea bed using alternating movements of their shell and of the soft, muscular foot contained within that shell.

  许多蛤类利用双壳及内部柔软强健足部的交替运动在河床上掘洞来逃避天敌。

• though south pacific legends describe clams that lie in wait to trap unsuspecting swimmers or swallow them whole, no account of a human death by giant clam has ever been substantiated.

  尽管有南太平洋的传说称有蛤蚌伏击在那里将没有觉察到的游泳者困住或将他们整个吞掉，但还没有任何人因为蛤蚌而死被证实过。

• 「in that case, sir, 」 our waiter says, 「may i advise against the lady, here, eating the clam chowder.」

  「这样的话，阁下」我们的服务生说「我个人建议这位女士不要在这里点蛤肉杂碎羹。」

• unofficially, the record belongs to a 374-year-old icelandic clam housed in a german museum.

  而作为非官方的最长寿纪录则属于一只保存在德国博物馆的374岁的冰岛蛤蜊。

• at some point, restaurateurs got in the habit of adding flour to make chowder thicker and thicker, and now this is what consumers have come to expect constitutes a bowl of 「authentic」 clam chowder.

  有一点，食客们养成了往汤里加面粉的习惯，使它变得越来越稠，以至于当他们想要一碗「正宗的」蛤蜊杂烩时，他们心里面想的就是这样一碗稠稠的汤。

• she would make clam chowder every sunday night, clam chowder and combread.

  她每个星期天都做蛤肉杂烩, 蛤肉杂烩和玉米饼.

• another oceanic resident, the quahog clam (arctica islandica), is thought to be one of the longest lived metazoans of all.

  另一位海洋居民—圆蛤被认为是世界上最长寿的后生动物。

• it」started off well, but he seemed to clam up towards the end.

  刚开始很, 但是最后他似乎有些沉默.

• will you clam up! the boss is talking.

  请你保持安静! 老板在说话.

• a drive around massachusetts' cape cod serves up miles of beaches, restful resort towns—and, yes, lobster and clam shacks.

  沿着马萨诸塞的科德角转上一圈，到处都是绵延的海滩，宁静的度假村——当然，也少不了捕龙虾和蛤蜊的小屋。

• favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt sundae, clam chowder, ice cream

  钟爱食品：炖牛肉，浆果酸奶圣代，蛤肉汤，冰激凌

• every time they were used, the detainee would clam up as they were scared that anything they said would make that pressure increase.

  每次使用它们时，受审者都保持沉默，好像他们害怕一旦说了什么，就会加重所受压力。