Fish live in water. A person who is in a strange or uncomfortable environment may feel like a fish out of water.

鱼生活在水中。一个处于陌生或不舒服环境中的人可能会感觉像一条离开水的鱼。

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"Yulelogs really loved his birthday cake," a worker said, "It's also a challenge for him as it requires a bit of thinking on how to get the fish out of the cake!"

“Yulelogs 真的很喜欢他的生日蛋糕。”一名工作人员说，“这对他来说也是一个挑战，因为他需要思考一下如何把鱼从蛋糕中取出来！”

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I felt like a fish out of water in my new school at first because I knew no one at that time.

我一开始在新学校的时候感觉非常不自在，因为我不认识任何人。

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Sometimes I feel like a fish out of water when I go to a party and everyone but me is doing the latest dance.

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The simile pushes the size of the spear clean out of our rational comprehension, and it's this process that is, according to Stanley Fish, the point of the simile.

这个比喻对长矛的形容,大大超出了正常的理解范围，对斯坦利费什来说，这恰恰是表达这个比喻的目的的一个过程。

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There's fish running, the bears are out, it's just, it's full of life.

水里有很多鱼，熊也出来活动了，就是，就是充满了生机。

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Bartz looked like a fish out of water on day one and eventually she crashed and burned badly.

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