carp

carpa

Pez grande de agua dulce que vive en lagos y ríos y suele criarse como alimento.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: common carp, catch a carp, carp fishing

criticar, poner pegas

Quejarse o criticar continuamente, sobre todo por cosas pequeñas y sin importancia.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

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

Sinónimos: complain, nitpick, grumble, cavil

Expresiones frecuentes: carp about something, carp at someone, carp over details