英语词汇oarfish的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

oarfish. Often mistaken as a “sea monster,” the very real oar- fish (Regaleus glesno) is really a gentle creature that doesn’t even bite, feeding instead by slurping up little animals with its small mouth. However, it isn’t hard to understand how the oarfish might be taken for a sea serpent. The narrow fish— about as wide as a ribbon—is a silverfish color and has what ap- pears to be a bright crimson mane (actually its dorsal fin), with trailing pectoral fins that give it its name. It grows up to 50 feet long. Weaving through the surface waters, it could easily be mistaken for a sea serpent from a distance. The oarfish, which doesn’t ever use its oarlike pectoral fins, really spends more time trying to evade pursuers than chasing prey like any self- respecting sea serpent. To escape sharks and other true mon- sters, it lets predators bite off a section of its manelike tail or dorsal fin and escapes while its enemy is chewing on it. This may or may not be an intentional defense mechanism, but the shorter oarfish seems to function just as well as when it was a few feet longer. See loch.

词汇	oarfish
词源	oarfish. Often mistaken as a “sea monster,” the very real oar- fish (Regaleus glesno) is really a gentle creature that doesn’t even bite, feeding instead by slurping up little animals with its small mouth. However, it isn’t hard to understand how the oarfish might be taken for a sea serpent. The narrow fish— about as wide as a ribbon—is a silverfish color and has what ap- pears to be a bright crimson mane (actually its dorsal fin), with trailing pectoral fins that give it its name. It grows up to 50 feet long. Weaving through the surface waters, it could easily be mistaken for a sea serpent from a distance. The oarfish, which doesn’t ever use its oarlike pectoral fins, really spends more time trying to evade pursuers than chasing prey like any self- respecting sea serpent. To escape sharks and other true mon- sters, it lets predators bite off a section of its manelike tail or dorsal fin and escapes while its enemy is chewing on it. This may or may not be an intentional defense mechanism, but the shorter oarfish seems to function just as well as when it was a few feet longer. See loch.
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