Catfishing is the practice of lying about yourself in an online environment, usually with the elaborate fabrication¹ of an online identity, in order to impress others, especially to trick someone into a relationship.

 

Catfishing指在网络环境中对自己的情况有所隐瞒，通常精心编造一个优质的网络身份，目的是为了给他人留下深刻印象，尤其是为了吸引某人与其发展恋爱关系，我们可称之为“网络自夸”。

 

Believe it or not, a little controlled catfishing is something that plenty of the Instant Message generation has experimented with. Really, who hasn’t tried to escape their reality by pretending to be a 17-year-old varsity baseball player in an N SYNC chat room every now and then? (Source: .Cambridge dictionary online)

 

不管你信不信，使用即时通讯工具的一代人基本都试过适度“网络自夸”。说真的，在超级男孩聊天室里，谁不会想着逃离当前的身份，偶尔假装成一名17岁的大学校队棒球手呢？