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fishing

/fish-ing/US // ˈfɪʃ ɪŋ //UK // (ˈfɪʃɪŋ) //

钓鱼,捕鱼,捕捞,垂钓

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of catching fish: Fishing is not allowed in this park.
    • : the technique, occupation, or diversion of catching fish: A day at sea with Floyd has greatly improved my fishing.
    • : the conditions for catching fish: The fishing is exceptionally good today.
    • : Archaic. a place or facility for catching fish.

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Examples

  • Masu are also an important food source for local villagers, who can catch scores of them in a leisurely day of ice fishing.

  • In the olden days, these fibers were used as bowstrings and fishing nets.

  • On her account, the Mundugumor thought fishing was an occupation appropriate mainly to women, while the Arapesh considered painting in color to be the exclusive purview of men.

  • Her team’s findings could inspire new approaches, such as providing refuges and fishing protections for species that can control these spiny reef-eaters.

  • The fishing industry, like the meat industry, exacts its share of environmental costs.

  • Like his old man, he keeps it reined in, but when talking about fishing, a true regret seeps out.

  • You will find one of the best places on earth to go salmon fishing.

  • But fishing for rationale in harassment is almost always a waste of time.

  • Sargent said they went skiing in Vail and fishing in Cabo but also talked business.

  • But as it takes away the safety net, their corpses wind up in fishing nets.

  • This intimacy arose partly from association while fishing for Cod, which abound in these waters, and partly from trading in furs.

  • He knows the whole piano literature, and is continually fishing up some new or old pearl or other to surprise one with.

  • Alila has still another way of fishing which is not as hard work as diving, though, after all, it is not much fun.

  • They have developed fishing and agriculture, and have brought the tourist into districts little visited before.

  • Above the buildings of the opposite side of the street rose the spars of several fishing-boats; the creek finished at Rosewater.