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
- someone who attacks in search of booty
双语例句
- 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。 - There are no piranha at sea.
海里面没有南美小鱼。 - Time for the ultimate killer's test: How would the piranha react to my duck?
现在是终极杀手测试时间：水虎鱼会对我的鸭子如何反应呢？ - '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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - Piranha fish live in the lakes, and electric eels.
湖里有水虎鱼，还有电鳗。 - 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。