- 1n/ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ boʊl/金魚缸
A round clear glass bowl filled with water, used for keeping small pet fish, so that the fish can be seen from every side.
文法可數名詞：前面可以加 a/an，要表示複數時常常加 -s。
這個東西本身很單純。它是圓的，上面開口，用透明玻璃做的。裡面裝水，養一兩條小魚。它跟方形魚缸最大的差別在形狀和材質。整圈都是玻璃，沒有背板，也沒有角落。所以裡面的魚沒有地方可以躲。房間裡的人從哪個方向看都看得見。這個字是可數的：a goldfish bowl、two goldfish bowls。這個「一眼望穿」的特點，也正是它另一個意思的來源。
示範例句 · Example
A goldfish bowl sat on the window ledge in the front room.
中文翻譯一個金魚缸放在前廳的窗台上。
The thing itself is simple: round, open at the top, made of clear glass, with water and one or two small fish in it. What makes it different from a tank is the shape and the glass all the way round — there is no back wall and no corner, so nothing inside it is hidden from anyone in the room. It is countable: a goldfish bowl, two goldfish bowls. That see-through roundness is also what the word's other meaning is built on.
常見搭配
keep fish in a goldfish bowl
用金魚缸養魚
to have pet fish living in one
They keep two fish in a goldfish bowl on the shelf.
clean out the goldfish bowl
清洗金魚缸
to empty it and wash it
It's your turn to clean out the goldfish bowl.
a round glass bowl
圓形玻璃缸
the shape and material of this object
The fish lived in a round glass bowl on the counter.
意思相近
fishbowlfish tankaquarium
core核心畫面
One way to hold this compound: a round bowl of clear glass with a fish inside. It has no back wall and no corner. Wherever the fish swims, it is still in full view of the room, and it cannot get behind anything. Hold that picture, and the word's other use follows on its own — put a person in the bowl instead of a fish, and you have a life that everyone can watch.