英语释义
1. any of numerous voracious elongate snakelike bony fishes (order Anguilliformes) that have a smooth slimy skin, lack pelvic fins, and have the median fins confluent around the tail — compare american eel
2. any of numerous other elongate fishes (as of the order Synbranchiformes)
3. any of various nematodes (such as the vinegar eel)
4. to fish for eels — see also eeling
5. to fish with eels as bait
6. to move or make (one's way) sinuously or insidiously worm
Stories my Russian friends had told me about the hundreds who were trampled at Stalin's funeral came back to me. Finally, we gave up and eeled our way out of there.
— Ian Frazier
7. a long fish that looks like a snake and has smooth slippery skin
8. a long fish that looks like a snake and has smooth slimy skin