eel

ウナギ

川などにすむ、ヘビのように細長い体の魚。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： freshwater eel, catch an eel, eel fishing

デンキウナギ

南米にすむ細長い魚で、電気を発して獲物を捕らえたり身を守ったりする。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： electric eel

よく使う表現： electric eel, eel tank

ヨーロッパウナギ

ヨーロッパの水域で育ち、繁殖のため海へ移動する細長い魚。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： European eel

よく使う表現： European eel, silver eel, glass eel

つかみどころのない人

捕まえにくい人や、正直にはっきり話すことを避ける人。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： slippery customer

よく使う表現： slippery eel, an eel

ウナギを釣る

ヘビのように細長い魚であるウナギを捕る。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： eel in something (They eel in the river after dark.)

よく使う表現： eel at night, eel in something

くねくね進む、すり抜ける

体を滑らかにくねらせ、狭い場所などを通り抜ける。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： eel through something (He eeled through a gap in the fence.); eel past someone (She eeled past the guards.)

類義語： wriggle, snake, slither

よく使う表現： eel through something, eel into something, eel past someone