- 1海星。注意：中文本來就叫「海星」而不是「星魚」，所以英文 starfish 裡的 fish 反而容易誤導。
A starfish is a flat sea animal shaped like a star, usually with five arms coming out from the middle, that lives on rocks and the sea floor. Despite the name it is not a fish at all — it has no bones and no gills — so scientists and aquarium signs increasingly call it a sea star. Both names are understood; starfish is still what most people say.
The plural is the interesting part. Like fish, it usually does not change: one starfish, ten starfish. 'Starfishes' exists and is not an error, but it is mostly used by talking about different species.
A couple of facts that come up whenever the word does: a starfish can grow a lost arm back, and not all of them have exactly five arms — some kinds have many more. In gyms and yoga classes, 'starfish' is also the name of a position where you lie with arms and legs spread out wide, and people use it jokingly about how someone sleeps.
組成star + fish. Named for its shape plus the old, loose use of 'fish' for almost anything living in the sea — the same loose use that gave us jellyfish and cuttlefish, neither of which is a fish either.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
starfishnoun/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/
- 1
Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
- Near-synonym: Asteroidea
- 2
obsoleteAny many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
- But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms.
- 3
slangA woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
- 4
vulgarslanglifestylemediapornographyThe anus.
- Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.
starfishverb/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/
- 1
To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
- "Oh you damn bastard, why won't you let anybody love you," and then, before I could stop her, she threw herself between us and the glowing suitcase, starfishing in the blaze of light as he blew up.
- The freckle on her eye starfished out and the sun began to move over her face like it does below the surface of water.
- 2
To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
- 3
To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
- The sea roared up her nostrils, tunnelled into her ears, and flung her forward, then back, the current pulling her fingers apart, starfishing her hands.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。