(复同单, 或fishes)
1- a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water鱼：
the huge lakes are now devoid of fish.
这些大湖里现在一条鱼也没有。
1.1
- mass noun the flesh of such animals as food鱼肉。
1.2
- （the Fish或Fishes）the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces双鱼宫。
1.3
- used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g. cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish用于水生无脊椎动物的名称中, 如cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish。
1.4
- with adj. informal a person who is strange in a specified way〈非正式〉（在某方面怪异的）怪人：
he is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish.
人们通常把他看成是个相当冷漠的怪人。
1.5
- informal a torpedo〈非正式〉鱼雷。
no obj.
1- catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line钓鱼; 捕鱼：
he was fishing for bluefish
他正在钓蓝鱼
I've told the girls we've gone fishing.
我已经告诉女孩子们我们钓鱼去了。
1.1
- with obj. catch or try to catch fish in (a particular body of water)在…里钓鱼（或打鱼）：
many of the lochs we used to fish are now affected by forestry.
许多我们过去常去钓鱼的湖泊现在都受到了林业的影响。
1.2
- search, typically by groping or feeling for something concealed（摸索着）寻找, 搜寻：
he fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's torch.
他摸索着寻找自己的登记证, 然后把它举起放到了警察的手电筒前。
1.3
- try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone（巧妙或拐弯抹角地）引起反应; 打听消息：
I was not fishing for compliments.
我不是在沽名钓誉。
1.4
- with obj.
fish something out
pull or take something out of water or a container or receptacle（从水中或容器中）把…打捞出; 拖出; 掏出： the body of a woman had been fished out of the river.
从河里打捞出一具女尸。
USAGE
The normal plural of fish is fish（a shoal of fish; he caught two huge fish）. The older form fishes is still used, when referring to different kinds of fish （freshwater fishes of the British Isles）.
短语
all's fish that comes to the net
- proverb you can or should take advantage of anything that comes your way〈谚〉抓到网里便是鱼; 来者不拒。
a big fish
- an important or influential person大人物, 大腕, 要人：
he became a big fish in the world of politics.
他成了政界的一个大人物。
a big fish in a small （或little）pond
- a person seen as important and influential only within the limited scope of a small organization or group小池塘里的大鱼; 矮子中的高个儿。
drink like a fish
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol过量饮酒; 牛饮。
a fish out of water
- a person in a completely unsuitable environment or situation出水之鱼; 逆境中人。
have other （或bigger）fish to fry
- have other (or more important) matters to attend to有更重要的事情要做; 另有他图。
like shooting fish in a barrel
- used to convey the extreme ease with which something can or has been accomplished瓮中捉鳖, 易如反掌; 举手之劳：
picking cultivated berries is like shooting fish in a barrel.
采摘栽培的浆果易如反掌。
neither fish nor fowl (nor good red herring)
- of indefinite character and difficult to identify or classify非驴非马, 不伦不类。
there are plenty more fish in the sea
- used to console someone whose romantic relationship has ended by pointing out that there are many other people with whom they may have a successful relationship in the future（用于安慰在情场上失意的人）海里的好鱼多的是; 天涯何处无芳草。
派生词
fishlike
adjective词源
Old English fisc (as a noun denoting any animal living exclusively in water), fiscian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vis, vissen and German Fisch, fischen.
1
- a flat plate of metal, wood, or another material that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength接合板, 鱼尾板。
1.1
- a long, slightly curved piece of wood that is lashed to a ship's damaged mast or spar as a temporary repair（撑夹受损桅杆的）副木。
with obj.
1- mend or strengthen (a beam, joint, mast, etc.) with a fish用接合板（或副木）修补, 用接合板（或副木）加固（接缝、接头、桅杆等）。
1.1
- join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate用鱼尾板接合（铁轨）。
词源
early 16th cent.: probably from French fiche, from ficher 'to fix', based on Latin figere.