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A halibut is a huge flat sea fish that people eat. It lives in cold water, lies on the bottom, and has both eyes on the top side. The flesh is white and firm, and in a restaurant it is often the expensive fish on the menu. Though actually one animal can grow bigger than a person, which is why cooks also talk about halibut steaks — big pieces cut across. Shops sometimes sweep all flat fish together; a cheap “flat fish” on a board is not always true halibut. The word often stays the same for one or many: two halibut, like two sheep.
大比目魚（市場口語常統稱「比目魚」，但 halibut 多半指這種特別大的）
組成From Middle English, built like holy + butt. Butt here is an old word for a flatfish, not a body part. People often ate this fish on holy days, when the church said no meat but fish was allowed. Dutch and German have cousin words that also join “holy” and the fish.
同家族的字
- holythe hali- at the front is an old form of holy; this fish was eaten on church days
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。
halibutnoun/ˈhæ.lɪ.bət/
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A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
- [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.
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。