Fish Out of Water——感到生疏

** a person who feels awkward or unhappy in an unfamiliar or uncomfortable surroundings（當一個人在陌生或不自在的環境下，便會感到尷尬或不快樂）

~~ 感到生疏；感到不合適；感到不適應；感到不自在；不得其所；無所適從；感到格格不入。

~~ out of one's element // square peg in a round hole // out of place // misfit

!! The metaphor starts with the knowledge that fish cannot survive long out of water because their gills cannot take oxygen from the air.

（這個比喻始於一般知識：魚不能長時間離水而生存，因為它們的鰓不能從空氣中吸收氧氣。）

!! The earliest recorded use is by English theologian and religious reformer John Wycliffe in his English Works (c. 1380): "And how they were out of their cloister as fish is without water."

（最早使用的記錄是英國神學家和宗教改革家約翰 · 威克理夫的英語作品中（1380年）：他們離開修道院是如何的感到不適應。”）

!! In 1613, Samuel Purchas had it in Pilgrimage: "The Arabians out of the deserts are as fishes out of the water."

（1613年，帕切斯在《朝聖》說：“離開沙漠的阿拉伯人就像離水之魚，不得其所。”）

>> I had worked in a small company for most of my life, and then worked in a big company, where I felt like a fish out of water.

（我一生大部分時間在一家小公司工作，隨後到一家大公司工作，卻感到生疏。）

>> As a computer programmer, marketing makes me feel like a fish out of water.

（作為一名電腦程式員，市場營銷讓我感到不合適。）

學勤進修教育中心英語專科導師 李啟文　　教授