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BNC: 10893 COCA: 16653

carp

Word family 
carp1 /kɑːp $ kɑːrp/ verb [intransitiveI]  
CRITICIZEto keep complaining about something in a way that is annoying 挑剔，找碴，吹毛求疵
carp about
 He always finds something to carp about.
他总是挑得出毛病。
Examples from the Corpus
carp• The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.• There was little benefit from carping about the organizational source of the disciplinary impedimenta.• Be pleasant, don't carp, but act like a corkscrew and draw out all the information you can.• This was Trescothick's first failure in international cricket in his seven outings, so let's not carp too much.
carp about• Flight attendants are used to airplane passengers carping about the food.
Related topics: Fish
carp2 noun (plural carp) [countableC]  
HBFa large fish that lives in lakes and rivers and can be eaten 鲤鱼
Examples from the Corpus
carp• I used to be able to summon a carp from the pond.• Chen succeeded in accelerating their growth by transferring genes from carp and rainbow trout to the tilapia.• Instantly the water becomes a maelstrom, as huge grey carp or catfish lunge for the food.• A successful carp angler still has to know his fish.• Her sister spent hours in the pavilion by the carp pond, composing replies.• It is sensible to give the carp a balanced diet for we want the carp to do well on our baits.• Going back to the carp's insides, once on the way through the carp, the food has to be digested.• There were carp in there and we saw them.
Origin carp1
(1200-1300) From a Scandinavian language
 carp2
(1300-1400) French carpe, from Late Latin carpa
carp1 verbcarp2 noun
Chinese
Corpus
BNC: 10893 COCA: 16653
BNC: 10893 COCA: 16653
carp verb
⇨ complain
BNC: 10893 COCA: 16653
carp
Fish that live in rivers and lakes: bass, bream, carp...
To complain: complain, mutter, lodge...

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