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

• The strawberry motif on the quilt hardly guarantees sweet dreams, and the stuffed piranha on top of the computer monitor won't help an ad writer produce snappy copy.
  被子上的草莓图案很难保证拥有甜蜜的睡梦，计算机显示器上的填充水虎鱼玩具将无助于广告作家写出漂亮的文稿。
• '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。
• 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。
• Locals in the Amazon region often use piranha teeth to make tools and weapons.
  亚马逊当地人经常用食人鱼的牙齿来做工具和武器。
• Did a school of piranha eat flesh down to the bone of a busload of passengers that crashed in an Amazonian river?
  当一辆公交车掉进了亚马逊河中，他们真的被食人鱼吃得只剩下了骨头？
• Liuzhou's municipal authorities in Guangxi on Wednesday placed a heavy bounty on piranhas recovered from its waters, and would offer 1,000 yuan for every piranha caught, China News Service reported.
  据中新社报道，周三，广西柳州市官方悬赏钓剿所辖水域中的食人鱼，每条奖励1000元。
• 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。
• I liked to think of myself as a grown man, but consternation was eating away at my bravado like a starved piranha devouring its prey.
  我那时喜欢把自己看作是一个大人，但惊恐慌乱就像一条饥肠辘辘的食人鱼吞食猎物一般，渐渐攻破了我的虚张声势。
• 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。
• Photo Gallery: Tropical Rain Forest Wildlife The notoriously voracious piranha lives only in the rivers of South America, primarily the Amazon and Orinoco.
  热带雨林野生动植物图片集。这有名的贪心的南美产的小鱼只居住在南美的河流，主要的在亚马逊河和Orinoco。