eel

anguila

Pez de cuerpo largo y delgado, parecido a una serpiente, que suele vivir en ríos.

En inglés sencillo: A long, thin fish with a body like a snake, often found in rivers.

• An eel swam under the boat.
• They caught three eels in the river.
• The eel slipped out of his hands.

Expresiones frecuentes: freshwater eel, catch an eel, eel fishing

anguila eléctrica

Pez alargado de Sudamérica que produce electricidad para capturar alimento y defenderse.

En inglés sencillo: A long South American fish that produces electricity to catch food and defend itself.

• An electric eel can give a powerful shock.
• The aquarium keeps an eel in a separate tank.
• These eels use electricity to find their prey.

Sinónimos: electric eel

Expresiones frecuentes: electric eel, eel tank

anguila europea

Pez largo y delgado que crece en aguas europeas y viaja al océano para reproducirse.

En inglés sencillo: A kind of long, thin fish that grows in European waters and travels to the ocean to breed.

• The European eel travels far to breed.
• Young eels enter this river from the sea.
• Researchers tracked an eel across the Atlantic.

Sinónimos: European eel

Expresiones frecuentes: European eel, silver eel, glass eel

escurridizo

Persona difícil de atrapar o que evita hablar con sinceridad y claridad.

En inglés sencillo: Someone or something that is difficult to catch or that avoids being honest or direct.

• That man is a slippery eel.
• The police could never catch that eel.
• She called him an eel because he avoided every question.

Sinónimos: slippery customer

Expresiones frecuentes: slippery eel, an eel

pescar anguilas

Pescar peces largos y delgados con aspecto de serpiente.

En inglés sencillo: To fish for long, thin fish that look like snakes.

• We used to eel at night.
• He eeled along this river as a boy.
• They went eeling with baited traps.

Cómo se usa: eel in something (They eel in the river after dark.)

Expresiones frecuentes: eel at night, eel in something

deslizarse, serpentear

Moverse con giros suaves del cuerpo, a menudo por un espacio estrecho.

En inglés sencillo: To move with smooth, twisting movements, often through a narrow space.

• She eeled through the crowd.
• The cat eeled into the narrow opening.
• He was eeling past the waiting passengers.

Cómo se usa: eel through something (He eeled through a gap in the fence.); eel past someone (She eeled past the guards.)

Sinónimos: wriggle, snake, slither

Expresiones frecuentes: eel through something, eel into something, eel past someone