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A turbot is a big flat fish from the seas around Europe — brownish, roughly diamond-shaped, and lying flat on the sea bottom with both eyes on the top side, like a flounder or sole. It grows large, up to about a metre. In Europe it is treated as one of the finest eating fishes: firm white meat, expensive, the kind of thing on a good restaurant menu rather than a home dinner table. So the word carries a slightly feeling in English — it turns up in , menus, and food writing far more than in ordinary talk, and many English speakers have never eaten one. In Taiwan you are most likely to meet the fish itself as 多寶魚, farmed and sold in supermarkets, which is a related fish rather than the exact wild European one. Note the spelling and sound: the final 't' is silent in careful British pronunciation for some speakers, though actually most people today just say it.
大菱鮃、多寶魚（台灣市場和餐廳多半寫「多寶魚」）
組成經由古法文 turbot 進入英文，更早來自古瑞典文 tornbut：törn「刺」+ but「比目魚」—— 也就是「有小刺突的扁魚」，指的是牠皮上那些硬硬的骨突。
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。
turbotnoun/ˈtɜːbət/
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Any member of the species Scophthalmus maximus (syn. Psetta maxima) of flatfish native to Europe.
- “With vegetables in it, you know. Then turbot with thick sauce, then ... roast beef; and mind it’s good. Yes, and capons, perhaps, and then sweets.”
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Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters.
- Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.
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A triggerfish (Canthidermis sufflamen).
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。