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goldfish

/gohld-fish/US // ˈgoʊldˌfɪʃ //UK // (ˈɡəʊldˌfɪʃ) //

金鱼,金魚,金龙鱼,黄金鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gold·fish, gold·fish·es.

    • : a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
    • : garibaldi.

Examples

  • Groups of these large goldfish were recently found in Keller Lake.

  • When you pull a goldfish about the size of a football out of the lake, it makes you wonder how this can even be the same type of animal.

  • “A few goldfish might seem to some like a harmless addition to the local water body — but they’re not,” the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources advised this year.

  • “Please don’t release your pet goldfish into ponds and lakes!”

  • Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we were about to go through this process all over again, with the EU acting as if it had the memory span of a giant goldfish.

  • They include “The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell” painted in 1932 and “The Harbour, Cannes,” painted circa 1933.

  • And in item 6c I get to list my dependents—three children, four dogs, six laying hens, two goldfish, and a hamster.

  • She told Harry that she did not want to live in the goldfish bowl of Royal family life.

  • He found a manager who was buying a package of Goldfish crackers and pulled the pellet gun on him.

  • The Jets step up to help Elmo train and Elmo helps them score a win, or at least his pet goldfish Dorothy does.

  • There are clumps of ornamental wood, flower-beds, and artificial ponds with goldfish swimming in them.

  • My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.

  • Already the boy could take a pair of rabbits out of a high hat, or change a bunch of carrots into a bowl of goldfish.

  • A good name, he seems to believe, is something which a woman carries tightly clasped in both arms like a bowl of goldfish.

  • He said that when he grew up he was going to be a merchant, and he had already begun to carry on a trade in canaries and goldfish.