marlin的词源

英文词源

marlin (n.)

large marine game-fish, 1917, shortening of marlinspike fish (1907), from marlinspike, name of a pointed iron tool used by sailors (see marlinspike). The fish was so called from the shape of its elongated upper jaw.

中文词源

marlin：枪鱼

缩写自marlinspike fish,枪鱼。因其形状形如一杆长枪而得名。

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