goldfish bowl

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A transparent bowl in which pet fish are kept.
    — It seemed only a moment after Tom had decided that Sara must tell the truth that Alice came into the sitting-room to find the goldfish bowl broken in a thousand pieces and the gasping fish beating themselves on the floor.
  2. Any place that lacks privacy, especially a room with a large window facing a public area. broadly,figuratively
    — "Because East Midlands Railway's HQ is here in Derby, we're rather in a goldfish bowl... and now there's the announcement that Derby will be the Great British Railway headquarters, so the goldfish bowl is about to get a whole lot bigger," he says.

词形变化

goldfish bowls plural
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