piranha

英 [pɪˈrɑːnə]

美 [pɪˈrɑːnə]

n.  水虎鱼，锯脂鲤(南美的一种捕食动物的小淡水鱼)

复数：piranhas　

BNC.27440 / COCA.26532

牛津词典

noun

• 水虎鱼，锯脂鲤（南美的一种捕食动物的小淡水鱼）
  a small S American freshwater fish that attacks and eats live animals

柯林斯词典

• 水虎鱼；食人鲳
  Apiranhais a small, fierce fish which is found in South America.

英英释义

noun

• small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals
  Synonym:piranacaribe
• someone who attacks in search of booty
  Synonym:marauderpredatorvulture

双语例句

• A pacu fish, known for eating human testicles, has been captured in Lake Lou Yaeger in Illinois, the Department of Natural Resources has stated. The fish is a relative of the piranha, which is known for its sharp teeth and vicious nature.
  美国自然资源部近日表示，美国伊利诺伊州劳耶格尔湖发现帕库食人鱼，据称这种食人鱼专咬男性生殖器，与以锋利的牙齿和凶残的本性著称的比拉食人鱼同属一类。
• There are no piranha at sea.
  海里面没有南美小鱼。
• But in the dry season when ponds and rivers dry up and food becomes more scarce, piranha turn to meat-eating, usually in the form of other fish.
  遇上旱季河流和湖泊干涸时，食物变得匮乏，食人鱼就开始吃肉，基本上是吃其他鱼类。
• The red-bellied pacu is the cousin of a very well-known fish that terrorizes swimmers in made-for-TV movies and on the big screen: the piranha, notes the Discovery channel.
  《探索发现》频道称，红腹帕库食人鱼是比拉食人鱼的近亲，比拉食人鱼非常有名，在电视电影中和大银幕电影中让游泳者感到恐怖。
• Or I would throw her into the sea, so piranha would eat her.
  或者把她扔进海里，小鱼会把她吃掉。
• The move followed a piranha attack last weekend in which a man surnamed Zhang suffered injuries to the palms of his hands while giving his dog a bath in the Liujiang River.
  此举的缘由是上周末市民张先生在柳江河边给小狗洗澡时，遭到食人鱼攻击，手掌被咬伤。
• A man nearby fished a piranha. I rushed to see and made a few photos. I made a feature of its sharp teeth.
  旁边的人碰巧拉上来一条，我赶紧跑过去照了几张照片，还特别给那锋利的牙齿来了一张特写。
• I say, instead of mailing the bonus checks to their houses, we put rocks on them and we put them at the bottom of an enormous piranha tank.
  我的办法是，不要将奖金支票邮寄到他们的家里，我们把奖金支票绑在石块上，再将石块沉在一个巨大的水虎鱼鱼缸的底部。
• They dropped a microphone into a piranha tank that, at different times, held three groups of10 fish.
  在不同时段，科学家们把麦克风放在食水鱼水箱中，这个水箱中有10条食人鱼，它们为分3组。
• 'In Piranha, there's lots of cool people. It's about a lot of fish that eat a lot of buff boys and big-boobied girls.
  在《水虎鱼》中，有许多很酷的人，是关于许多鱼吃掉了很多帅哥和性感美女的电影。