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fishbowl

/fish-bohl/US // ˈfɪʃˌboʊl //UK // (ˈfɪʃˌbəʊl) //

鱼缸,鱼碗,鱼盆,鱼瓶

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a glass bowl for goldfish, snails, etc.
    • : a place, job, or condition in which one's activities are open to public view or scrutiny.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Then the pandemic exiled almost all of teenage social life to that online fishbowl.

  • I physically felt like I was in a fishbowl, and I was sitting on the couch with one of my best friends and Julie Fucking Andrews.

  • She simply doesn't want to live her life in that fishbowl, and who can blame her?

  • Reporters call it "the fishbowl": the building is curved, and the entire area is fronted by glass.

  • Within the political fishbowl, Alicia is under as much scrutiny as Carrie, in a way.

  • The first of those questions is a matter of personal fascination over the ability to keep secrets in a fishbowl environment.

  • He clamped his fishbowl on tight, opened the door, and sprinted toward Corridor C.

  • De Hooch kept on running, his breath rasping loudly in the confines of the fishbowl helmet.

  • I reached down to the neck-fastenings on the fishbowl, and McCann finally moved.

  • There were no walls, just the rounded dome like a fishbowl turned upside down on him.

  • I'd noticed a smeared spot about nose-level on the faceplate of my fishbowl, and now was as good a time as any to get rid of it.