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A swordfish is a big sea fish whose upper jaw grows long, flat and pointed, like a sword sticking out from its face. They are large — often two or three metres including the 'sword' — fast , and live in warm oceans.
A swordfish旗魚 is a big sea fish是一種大型海魚，whose upper jaw grows long, flat and pointed牠的上頷長得又長又扁又尖，like a sword sticking out from its face就像一把劍從臉上突出來一樣。They are large牠們體型很大——often two or three metres including the 'sword'常常連「劍」在內有兩三公尺長——fast swimmers游得很快，and live in warm oceans住在溫暖的海洋裡。
People fish for them for sport and for food; swordfish steak is a firm, meaty fish you can cook like a piece of pork or beef rather than a delicate fillet, and it is served in restaurants in Taiwan too.
People fish for them for sport and for food人們會為了休閒或為了食用而捕牠們；swordfish steak旗魚排 is a firm, meaty fish是一種肉質紮實的魚，you can cook like a piece of pork or beef可以像煮豬肉或牛肉那樣料理，rather than a delicate fillet而不是那種細緻的魚片，and it is served in restaurants in Taiwan too在台灣的餐廳也吃得到。
Note the plural: it is usually 'swordfish', not 'swordfishes' — 'we caught three swordfish'.
Note the plural要注意複數形：it is usually 'swordfish', not 'swordfishes'通常還是'swordfish'，不是'swordfishes'——'we caught three swordfish'像'we caught three swordfish'（我們抓到三條旗魚）這樣講。
Do not mix it up with the sailfish or the marlin, which also have pointed bills; the swordfish's bill is flat and blade-like, and it has no big sail-shaped fin on its back.
Do not mix it up with the sailfish or the marlin不要把牠跟sailfish（旗魚的另一類）或marlin（馬林魚）搞混，which also have pointed bills牠們的嘴也是尖的；the swordfish's bill is flat and blade-like但swordfish的嘴是扁平、像刀刃一樣的，and it has no big sail-shaped fin on its back而且牠背上沒有那種像帆一樣的大鰭。
組成sword + fish — 'the fish with a sword'. The word is very old; it was already swerdfysche in Middle English and sweordfisc in Old English, so English speakers have been calling it this for over a thousand years.
同家族的字
- swordsmanboth begin with 'sword'
- swordsmanshipboth begin with 'sword'
原始詞典資料3 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。
swordfishnoun/ˈsɔː(ɹ)dfɪʃ/
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A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
- One reason, the department suggested, was that affluent New Yorkers were likely to eat expensive fish high in mercury, like swordfish and tuna.
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A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
swordfishverb/ˈsɔː(ɹ)dfɪʃ/
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To fish for swordfish.
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。