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A cuttlefish is a sea animal with a soft body and ten soft arms: eight shorter arms and two longer ones for catching food. It is not a fish, though the English name says fish.
A cuttlefishcuttlefish這種動物 is a sea animal with a soft body是一種身體軟軟的海洋動物 and ten soft arms有十隻軟軟的腕足 eight shorter arms八隻比較短 and two longer ones for catching food兩隻比較長，用來抓食物 It is not a fish牠不是魚 though the English name says fish雖然英文名字裡有「fish」這個字
It can change colour in a moment, to hide or to signal. Inside it has a hard white shell (sold in pet shops as cuttlebone, for birds to peck). It belongs with and , not with tuna or salmon.
It can change colour in a moment牠可以瞬間變色 to hide用來躲藏 or to signal或是傳遞訊號 Inside it has a hard white shell牠體內有一片白色硬殼 (sold in pet shops as cuttlebone, for birds to peck)（在寵物店叫cuttlebone，是賣給鳥啄食用的） It belongs with squid and octopus牠跟squid(魷魚)、章魚是同一類 not with tuna or salmon不是跟鮪魚或鮭魚同一類
You hear the word in nature films and on menus. The flesh is firm and white, and people fry it, stew it, or grill it.
in nature films在自然紀錄片裡 and on menus還有菜單上 You hear the word你會聽到這個字 The flesh is firm and white牠的肉質緊實、顏色白 and people fry it人們會拿去炸 stew it燉 or grill it或烤
Though actually, once it is cooked, many English speakers cannot tell cuttlefish from , and some menus treat the two as the same.
Though actually不過實際上 once it is cooked一旦煮熟之後 many English speakers cannot tell cuttlefish from squid很多說英文的人分不出cuttlefish(花枝)跟squid(魷魚) and some menus treat the two as the same有些菜單也把兩者當成同一種
組成cuttle + fish. Cuttle is the old English name for this animal; fish was added even though it is not a true fish.
同家族的字
- cuttlebonecuttlebone is the hard white shell inside a cuttlefish
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cuttlefishnoun/ˈkʌtl̩fɪʃ/
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Any squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened.
- Cuttle-fish, spiced oysters, sea hedge-hogs, and lobsters were among the ingredients of love-potions that reputed thaumaturgist Apuleius [...] was accused of have prepared in order to win the love of a widow.
- Fossilised ink sacs are more conclusively known from the extinct “soft-bodied” Coleoidea cephalopods in groups Belemitida (including belemnites with bullet-like internal skeletons commonly found as fossils) and Phragmoteuthida as well as from squid, octopus and cuttlefish fossils.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。