carped

英 [kɑːpt]

美 [kɑːrpt]

v.  不停地抱怨; 唠叨
carp的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

Carp can also be used as the plural form for meaning 1. 义项1中 carp 亦可用作复数名词。


• 鲤鱼
  Acarpis a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
• VERB 挑剔；吹毛求疵；发牢骚
  If you say that someoneis carping, you mean that they keep criticizing or complaining about someone or something, especially in a way you think is unnecessary or annoying.
  1. He cannot understand why she's constantly carping at him...
     他不明白为什么她总是找他的茬儿。
  2. This was the man whom other trainers love to carp about.
     这就是老被其他教练挑毛病的那个人。

双语例句

• An art critic who constantly carped;
  总喜欢吹毛求疵的艺术批评家；
• Carped one seven-year-old about the glove puppets used in Burger King's The Lost World television advertisement.
  一名7岁儿童看到汉堡王的电视广告《失去的世界》中的布袋木偶，挑剔地说。
• For years, the Bush administration has carped at the IPCC process, calling it flawed.
  多年来，布什政府一直对ipcc的工作百般挑剔，称其存在缺陷。