单词 | fishbowl |
释义 | fishbowlfish·bowl /ˈfɪʃbəʊl $ -boʊl/ noun [countableC] 1. a glass bowl that you can keep fish in 玻璃鱼缸 2 a place or situation in which you cannot do anything in private 毫无隐秘的场所[状态] Being in a small town like this is like living in a fishbowl. 生活在这样的一个小镇上,就像生活在玻璃鱼缸里一样毫无隐私可言。 Examples from the Corpus fishbowl• Then I walked in and he had this thing in a big fishbowl sitting up on the table beside his bed.• Two uniformed men sat inside an armour-glass fishbowl in the centre of the floor.• He had never been comfortable in the fishbowl.• We called it the fishbowl, for it was built of partitions, and the front of it was three-quarters glass.• Where can she go for it on this fishbowl island? |
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