Eel
[iːl] or [il]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins.
(noun.) the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled.
校對:迈拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.
錄入:保拉
解釋/意思:
the body is much elongated cylindrical or ribbon-shaped.—ns. Eel′-bas′ket a basket for catching eels; Eel′-pout in England a Burbot (q.v.); in parts of Scotland a Blenny (q.v.): a well-known fish with a slimy body living chiefly in mud; Eel′-spear an instrument with broad prongs for catching eels.
校對:梅雷迪思
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of an eel is good if you can maintain your grip on him. Otherwise fortune will be fleeting. To see an eel in clear water, denotes, for a woman, new but evanescent pleasures. To see a dead eel, signifies that you will overcome your most maliciously inclined enemies. To lovers, the dream denotes an end to long and hazardous courtship by marriage.
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例句/造句/用法:
- He had a shilling in his pocket; and he dined sumptuously, he tells me, on a black-pudding, an eel-pie, and a bottle of ginger-beer. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- This is you, who have been as slippery as an eel this last month, and as thorny as a briar-rose? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Or put it, my juvenile friends, that he saw an elephant, and returning said 'Lo, the city is barren, I have seen but an eel,' would THAT be Terewth? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If you're an eel, sir, conduct yourself like one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He used to be slender as an eel, and now I fancy in him a sort of heavy dragoon bent--a beef-eater tendency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Caliphronas made a dart at Crispin with uplifted hand, but Maurice sprang up and caught him in his arms, where he writhed like an eel. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He's as slippery as an eel, he is. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- What is an Electric Eel? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Ye don't think I did business with you, down in Natchez, for nothing, Haley; I've learned to hold an eel, when I catch him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- On an eel-pasty he particularly doted. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If he'd hear to me, he wouldn't trust any on ye--slippery as eels! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- His errors are readily comprehensible, as, for example, in attributing spontaneous generation to eels, the habits and mode of reproduction of which only recent studies have made fully known. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Then we ate _paella_ with fresh sea food, clams in their shells, mussels, crayfish, and small eels. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But when they are hot and roused, there is a definite attraction--a curious kind of full electric fluid--like eels. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Aye, when I think of those smallest eels, tiny, delicate and in mounds on the plate. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The eels can be taken by driving horses into the water to be shocked and seizing them when thus weakened. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Jane, said he, surveying even the elder sister with some interest, Eels will be sorry he cried off. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Eels, frogs, oysters, occupied an important place in the royal bill of fare. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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