A fish store in Kuwait was shut down by authorities after it was discovered that the owners were sticking plastic, craft-store “googly eyes” onto their fish in an apparent effort to make their product look fresher.
科威特的一家鱼店因为被发现使用工艺商店的“棍球似的”眼睛粘在他们的鱼的眼睛上，被当局关闭，这家店这么做显然是为了让他们的产品看起来更新鲜。
Googly：曲棍球

The freshness of a fish can indeed be judged by its eyes. The whiter the fish’s eyes, the more recently it was caught. In this case, the googly eyes did cover up the rotting, yellowish color of the fish’s actual eyes. However, the ruse didn’t exactly go unnoticed.
鱼的新鲜度确实可以用它们的眼睛来判断。鱼的眼睛越白，那么距离捕捞上来的时间越近。在这种情况下，“曲棍球似”的眼睛确实掩盖了鱼研究实际腐烂后的黄色。然而，这个诡计并不是没有人察觉。
Freshness：新鲜程度

A video of the googly-eyed fish first started circulating among local WhatsApp users before still images wound up on Twitter, where users had a field day making fun of the ridiculous tactic employed to seemingly sell more fish to the public. Local newspaper Al Bayan originally reported the shutdown of the fish vendor and also posted images of the fake fresh fish to Twitter.
这个有“曲棍球似的”眼睛的鱼的视频最初在whasapp用户中传播，然后当流传到twitter上成为静止图片后，被用户玩了一整天，嘲笑这种为了向公众出售更多鱼类的荒谬策略。当地报纸AI Bayan是最初报道这家店关闭和向twitter发布假鱼眼图片的媒体。
Making fun of : 嘲笑

Social media users weren’t the only ones that mocked this particular store for the stunt. Other fish vendors in the area took advantage of the store’s mistake by mocking it in their own advertising.
社交媒体用户不是唯一嘲笑这家独特商店特技的群体。该地区的其他鱼类供应商通过在自己的广告中嘲笑这家商店的错误来获得好处。
Particular：独特的

One company stated on social media that they were selling “fish without cosmetics” and shared images of fish with different colored contact lenses photoshopped onto them.
一家公司在社交媒体上表示，他们正在销售“没有化妆品的鱼”，并分享了装上不同颜色的隐形眼镜的鱼的图片。
Cosmetics：化妆品

Although it seems incredibly silly to try and fool people into buying fish that is clearly rotten by sticking on fake eyeballs, the fact is that so much of the world’s fish caught for human consumption goes to waste.
虽然试图通过装假眼愚弄人们购买明显腐烂的鱼类似乎非常愚蠢，但事实是世界上因为人类消费而被抓的鱼大部分都浪费掉了。
Rotten：腐烂的

According to a July 2018 report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), about 35 percent of fish caught for food never wind up getting consumed due to overfishing.
根据联合国粮食及农业阻止（FAO）发布的2018年7月报告，大约35%被捕捞的食用鱼类是过度捕捞而从未被人消费。
Consume：消费

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