A turbot is a big flat fish from the seas around Europe — brownish, roughly diamond-shaped, and lying flat on the sea bottom with both eyes on the top side, like a flounder or sole. It grows large, up to about a metre.

A turbot is a big flat fish from the seas around Europeturbot 是一種產自歐洲附近海域的大型扁魚——brownish帶點褐色，roughly diamond-shaped形狀大致像菱形，and lying flat on the sea bottom平躺在海底 with both eyes on the top side兩隻眼睛都長在上面那一側，like a flounder or sole就像 flounder 或 sole 一樣。It grows large牠可以長得很大，up to about a metre最大可以到大約一公尺。

In Europe it is treated as one of the finest eating fishes: firm white meat, expensive, the kind of thing on a good restaurant menu rather than a home dinner table. So the word carries a slightly upmarket feeling in English — it turns up in cookbooks, menus, and food writing far more than in ordinary talk, and many English speakers have never eaten one.

In Europe it is treated as one of the finest eating fishes在歐洲，牠被當成最頂級的食用魚之一：firm white meat肉質結實、白色，expensive價格昂貴，the kind of thing on a good restaurant menu rather than a home dinner table是會出現在高級餐廳菜單上、而不是家常餐桌上的那種魚。So the word carries a slightly upmarket feeling in English所以這個字在英文裡帶著一點高檔的感覺——it turns up in cookbooks, menus, and food writing far more than in ordinary talk牠出現在食譜、菜單和美食寫作裡的頻率，遠高於出現在日常對話裡，and many English speakers have never eaten one而且許多英語使用者根本沒吃過。

In Taiwan you are most likely to meet the fish itself as 多寶魚, farmed and sold in supermarkets, which is a related fish rather than the exact wild European one. Note the spelling and sound: the final 't' is silent in careful British pronunciation for some speakers, though actually most people today just say it.

In Taiwan you are most likely to meet the fish itself as 多寶魚在台灣，你最有可能是以「多寶魚」這個名字遇到這種魚，farmed and sold in supermarkets是養殖後在超市販售的，which is a related fish rather than the exact wild European one牠是近親魚種，而不是真正野生的歐洲那一種。Note the spelling and sound留意一下拼法和發音：the final 't' is silent in careful British pronunciation for some speakers對某些說話者來說，在講究的英式發音裡最後的 't' 是不發音的，though actually most people today just say it不過老實說現在大多數人都會把它唸出來。