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单词 fishbowl
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Definition of fishbowl in English:

fishbowl

nounˈfɪʃbəʊlˈfɪʃˌboʊl
  • A round glass bowl for keeping pet fish in.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He compares our bodies to that of a fish in a fishbowl.
    • The hostess double-takes at the sight of a panda and large, muscle-bound man in a suit and tie carrying a lobster in a fishbowl.
    • When I get to the house, the fishbowl on the porch is empty.
    • Sat perfectly still inside the fishbowl was a small aquarium dweller.
    • Indeed as you turn your head from side to side, the 3D images appear to bow out to you like a true three-dimensional fishbowl.
 
 

Definition of fishbowl in US English:

fishbowl

nounˈfɪʃˌboʊlˈfiSHˌbōl
  • 1A round glass bowl for keeping pet fish in.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed as you turn your head from side to side, the 3D images appear to bow out to you like a true three-dimensional fishbowl.
    • Sat perfectly still inside the fishbowl was a small aquarium dweller.
    • The hostess double-takes at the sight of a panda and large, muscle-bound man in a suit and tie carrying a lobster in a fishbowl.
    • When I get to the house, the fishbowl on the porch is empty.
    • He compares our bodies to that of a fish in a fishbowl.
    1. 1.1US A place open to public view and criticism.
      there was no privacy in his office; it was a fishbowl
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I hated what it had become, a fishbowl for TV journalists who wanted to pontificate about the unknown poor in the city.
      • I think one of the things that I learned from politics is that you really have to open up your life and live in a fishbowl to be an elected official.
      • The chef will be in the TV fishbowl as cameras chronicle life in the kitchens and in the dining room.
      • There is a distinct similarity between the two men, both of whom spent a brief period atop golf's World Ranking, neither of whom has grown accustomed to life in golf's fishbowl.
      • And the downside of fame is that ‘you're always in the fishbowl, so have to be aware of what you're doing.’
      • I'm thinking in particular of people in high and not-so-high places in the Bahamas that used to hide behind curtains and anonymity and now the curtain has been drawn and they are in a fishbowl.
      • Are you willing to lead by example in everything you do - to live in a fishbowl with your personal and professional life open to view?
      • When I feel I've had too much press or I'm in a fishbowl I just go home.
      • Now, he's going to the biggest fishbowl in sports, where the rabid New York tabloid papers and sports talk radio will dissect everything he says and does.
      • To add insult to injury, the citizens will fund the very system that will reduce their lives to a transparent fishbowl.
      • We're a little bit more used to the media ties, the environment in which we live and the necessity of operating in kind of a media fishbowl all the time.
      • One of the original ideas behind the Wrestling site was to include a blog, thus allowing the public a look into our glorious fishbowl.
      • But from outside the fishbowl, it just reinforces the impression that nothing they say can be taken at face value.
      • Working with Madonna is like working in a fishbowl: the whole world is watching.
 
 
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