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词汇 catfish
释义 catfish
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkæt.fɪʃ/ us /ˈkæt.fɪʃ/pluralcatfish

catfishnoun[C] (FISH)


a fish with a flat head and long hairs around its mouth that lives in rivers or lakes鲶鱼,鲇鱼
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Freshwater fish
American shad
barramundi
blackfish
bluefish
bottom feeder
dorado
eel
electric eel
elver
fry
panfish
perch
pink salmon
piranha
rockfish
salmon
tilapia
trout
walleye
whitefish

catfishnoun[C] (FAKE)


informal
someone who pretends on social media to be someone different, in order to trick or attract other people: (在社交媒体上伪装自己以此来)钓鱼交友的人
Online scammers and catfish usually have broad profile interests so that they can appeal to as many people as possible.网络诈骗者和钓鱼交友的人通常在他们的个人资料填写非常广泛的兴趣爱好,这样他们就能吸引尽可能多的人。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cheating & tricking
anti-fraud
bad faith
bamboozle
bilk
blackmail
deceive
diddle
feint
flannel
game-fixing
grift
grifter
gull
gyp
have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
prankster
pretext
pretextual
pull
pull a fast oneidiom
catfish
verb[ T ]
 informaluk /ˈkæt.fɪʃ/ us /ˈkæt.fɪʃ/
to try to trick or attract someone by pretending on social media to be someone different: (在社交媒体上伪装自己以此来)钓鱼交友
If a random, attractive person starts talking to you online, you are very likely being catfished.如果忽然有个很有魅力的陌生人在网上开始和你聊天,你很可能是他钓鱼交友的对象。
People who catfish others usually make up fake lives so they can be as extravagant as they want to be.
If someone seems to be falling for you after just a little contact with you, they’re probably trying to catfish you.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cheating & tricking
anti-fraud
bad faith
bamboozle
bilk
blackmail
deceive
diddle
feint
flannel
game-fixing
grift
grifter
gull
gyp
have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
prankster
pretext
pretextual
pull
pull a fast oneidiom
Examples from literature

But some Americans use only their hands to catch catfish. 
Catfish lay their eggs in holes under water that is about 21° C. And they like to stay close to their eggs. 
Now grab the catfish quickly with your hands and pull it out of the water. 
The catfish will think your fingers are food and will bite them. 
The male sea catfish is important, too. 
In one aquarium there are so many catfish that they make the water cloudy. 
Maybe we'd catch some alligators to make things exciting, and maybe some big yellow river catfish. 
Perhaps the little bull-head catfish might survive in such muddy water, but I did not believe bass or perch could. 
The only kind of fish taken was the common catfish. 
We got five catfish off the lines and went home. 

catfish | American Dictionary


catfish
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkætˌfɪʃ/
an edible fish with a flat head and stiff growths like hairs around its mouth, found in rivers and lakes

Examples of catfish


catfish
An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes.
Gold prospecting may also frighten these large catfishes in the areas where they spawn.
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An alternate possibility is that they are used in feeding; similar structures in the stegophiline catfishes are used to gather mucus and scales.
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Freshwater catfishes and barbs from those rivers migrated and mated to exchange their genetic materials about 10,000 years ago.
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Freshwater catfishes from those rivers migrated and mated to exchange their genetic materials about 10,000 years ago.
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Typical examples are the electric eel, the electric catfishes, and electric rays.
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Many types of suckermouth armoured catfishes remain undescribed.
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Voltage-clamp analysis of currents produced by glutamate and some glutamate analogues on horizontal cells isolated from the catfish retina.
All three major bullheads can be confused with other catfishes by novice anglers.
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The smaller ariid catfishes have minor value as public and home aquarium fish.
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Like all other catfishes, it has barbels around the mouth which contain taste buds that help the animal find food at night.
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Thus, juvenile catfishes generally resemble and develop smoothly into their adult form without distinct juvenile specializations.
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Furthermore, the numerically dominant larval species of metazoan parasites infecting the catfish had very high mean intensity values (table 1).
Nearly one half of the species of madtom catfishes was described in the single comprehensive revision of the group.
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Like many other catfishes, their bodies lack scales.
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