| 单词 | cockle |
| 释义 | cock·le /ˈkɒkəl $ ˈkɑː-/ noun [countable] 1. HBFa common European shellfish that is used for food 鸟蛤2 warm the cockles of somebody’s heart especially British EnglishHAPPY to make someone feel happy and full of good feelings towards other people 使某人由衷地感到高兴 Seeing her new baby just warms the cockles of your heart. 看到她那刚出生的宝宝，你会打心眼里感到高兴。Examples from the Corpuscockle• The 40-strong group started loading bags of cockles, which can fetch up to £12 a time, on to a lorry.• Yesterday, as the group of cockle pickers went about their business, police said there had been no further incidents.• In the Wash oystercatchers are innocent victims of the collapse of the estuary's cockle fishery.• It houses sea snails, cockles, mussels, large fish, squid, cuttlefish, octopuses, shrimps and crabs.Origin cockle (1300-1400) French coquille “shell”, from Latin conchylia, from Greek, from konche; → CONCHcock·le nounChineseSyllable is used a food common that for shellfish European Corpus |
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