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carper

/kahrp/US // kɑrp //UK // (kɑːp) //

珀尔,珀,珀斯,珀子

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a peevish complaint.

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Examples

  • Look no further than when a picture of a carp blanketed most of Twitter earlier this month.

  • You’ll also often find carp in the inlet side of reservoirs where freshwater flows in around structure.

  • “Part of our responsibility is to vet nominees, not to kill nominees, not to hold them forever,” Carper said.

  • The IG office opened the investigation last September based on a referral from the FBI, but its progress is unclear, Carper said.

  • Carper described Allen as a “very fine person” and said either Lute or Allen would be fine.

  • Carper said Lute would get through the Senate quickly and easily.

  • “I think Jane Holl Lute would be a terrific candidate, and I urge the president to consider her,” Carper said.

  • We are far from sharing the opinion of a carper who remarked that, as sermons go, this volume is rather dear.

  • Any carper can find the faults in a great work; it is only the enlightened who can discover all its merits.

  • Carper's four patterns of knowing serve as an organizing framework for asking epistemological questions of caring in nursing.

  • Carper's patterns of knowing offer a framework for organizing the content for studying this nursing situation.

  • There has never been an age that has not had its carper to tell you of the wonders that once were.