螃蟹 | páng xiè | crab; Classifiers: 只 | |
河蟹 | hé xiè | river crab; Internet censorship (pun on "harmonious" 和谐 , which is blocked by the great firewall of China) | |
蟹黄 | xiè huáng | the ovaries, roe and digestive tract of the crab; soft interior of crab as a food delicacy; crab meat | |
蟹肉 | xiè ròu | crab meat | |
虾兵蟹将 | xiā bīng xiè jiàng | shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea); useless troops (idiom) |
1 | Most of them are made with fresh fish, shrimp, crab, and other seafood. | |
2 | But they face a problem: invading "river crabs" that are devouring their grassland. | |
3 | People were capturing the crabs and selling them as bait for the more profitable eel and whelk fisheries. | |
4 | The baby crabs develop in coastal sea grasses, eventually coming onto land to repeat the life cycle. | |
5 | The effect of the spill on the eggs and larvae of shrimps, crabs, and fish, all key to the local economy, remains unknown. |