carp

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湖や川にすむ大きな魚。食用にもよく養殖される。

やさしい英語で： A large fish that lives in lakes and rivers and is often raised for food.

• A carp swam beneath the bridge.
• We caught three carp in the lake.
• The pond is full of large carp.

よく使う表現： common carp, catch a carp, carp fishing

あら探しをする、文句を言う

小さく重要でないことについて、繰り返し文句や批判を言う。

やさしい英語で： To keep complaining or criticizing, especially about small, unimportant things.

• Please stop carping about the weather.
• He carped at every small mistake.
• The critics kept carping over details nobody else noticed.

使い方： carp about something (He keeps carping about the price of coffee.); carp at someone/something (She carped at every suggestion we made.)

類義語： complain, nitpick, grumble, cavil

よく使う表現： carp about something, carp at someone, carp over details