whale

whale

美 [hweɪl] 　英 [weɪl]

• n.鲸鱼；【动】鲸；〈非正式〉巨大的事物；令人印象深刻的事物
• v.捕鲸；击打；猛击
• 网络庞然大物；鲸品店；鲸类

词形变化

复数：whales  现在分词：whaling  过去式：whaled  

英汉双解

习惯用语

英汉解释

n.	1. 【动】鲸; 鲸鱼 2. 〈非正式〉巨大的事物; 令人印象深刻的事物; 令人愉悦的事物
v.	1. 捕鲸 2. 击打; 猛击

英英解释

n.	1. [Animal]a very large sea animal that breathes air through a hole on the top of its head 2. <informal>an impressive, very large, or very enjoyable example of something
v.	1. to hunt whales 2. to hit or strike somebody or something with great force

例句

The adult male was tangled in fishing nets about a mile out to sea. Divers think the whale may have been tangled there for up to two months.

这头成年雄性鲸鱼在距离海岸一英里处的渔网里挣扎，潜水员们猜测它已经在那里挣扎了两个月以上。

is dead. Its body is taken aboard the ship. A crew of men sets to work stripping the great whale of its blubber.

鲸鱼死了，它的身体被拖上了船的甲板。一个水手带着工具，去剥离这条巨大的鲸鱼的鲸脂。

But whether a whale primarily intends its song to impress females or to intimidate other males with its swanky style remains unclear.

然而，它的主要目的是吸引异性，还是用时髦的风格恐吓其他雄性鲸鱼，我们不得而知。

My novel Whale Song was the only novel of mine he had ever read. And this ties him to me even closer.

《鲸之歌》是他读过的唯一一本我的小说，这使我们的关系更近了。

Rescuers think the whale had been dragging the net and its anchors for more than a week.

救援者认为这头鲸已经拖着渔网和网锚超过了一星期。

The RSPCA said, with the benefit of hindsight, it may have been better to put the whale down as soon as it was discovered.

RSPCA表示，这一系列惨痛教训表明，在发现鲸搁浅时，最明智的办法是对它尽快实施安乐死。

This was the call that announced there was about to be a whale hunt.

这是宣告捕鲸行动马上就要开始的声音。

before he was a year old, and fell in love with the whale after seeing him perform in an aquarium show.

这个男孩在不到一岁的时候就开始学游泳，他在水族馆里看了大白鲸的表演之后就喜欢上了那条鲸。

She notes, however, that her team has not found a case of skin cancer in any of the samples of whale skin it has examined thus far.

到目前为止，她的研究小组在检查过的鲸皮样品中尚未发现皮肤癌的病例。

Growing to two or three inches long, krill provides the major food for the great blue whale, the largest animal to ever inhabit the Earth.

越来越两三英寸长，主要渔获为粮食大蓝鲸，最大的动物都生活在地球上。

But Japan has continued to hunt whales as scientific research - while not hiding the fact that whale meat ends up in restaurants and shops.

但是日本一直以科学研究为由不断捕鲸，这些都掩盖不了鲸肉最终出现在餐馆和商店的事实。

the tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant. the heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

蓝鲸的舌头与一头大象的舌头一样长，且它的心脏相当于一辆小型汽车的尺寸大小。

The little whale is so happy to be home. She splashes in the water with her flippers . The other whales swim to her side.

小鲸鱼回到家很高兴。她用鱼鳍跃入水中。其他的鲸鱼游到她的身边。

The last whale hunters in the United States, native Alaskans ply slushy waters off the state's coast in a walrus-skin boat.

美国最后的猎鲸人，阿拉斯加原住民身着海象皮大衣，沿海岸线泥泞的水域，弓腰，候鲸。

He has a whale boat and used to go fishing in it, but now he is no longer strong enough to manage its unwieldy bulk.

他有一条捕鲸船，以往常常出海打鱼，如今气力不支，弄不了这条笨重的破船了。

They were unable to classify it, and, being scientific men, they climbed into the whale-boat alongside and went ashore to see.

她们没有分清到底属于哪类动物，可是她们都是研究科学的人，是以就划了个捕鲸船到岸上察看。

The boat of whale watchers first thought the humpback was already dead as it was floating on top of the water.

起初，船上的观鲸者还以为这只座头鲸已经死了，因为它的身子已经浮在了水面上。

When confronted, the restaurant accepted responsibility for serving whale, and now faces a fine of up to $200, 000.

当餐厅受到当面对证时，承认售卖鲸鱼，并面临了最高200,000美元的罚款。

Japan argues that years of a global hunting ban have allowed whale populations to grow enough to allow hunting.

日本方面辩解说，过去很多年来国际上都没有允许捕鲸活动，这就使得鲸的数量已经增加到可以捕杀的程度了。

I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel.

当初，我是在一艘捕鲸船上同他结识的。

They were trying to decide if it looked more like a whale or a shimmering serpent.

他们正在判断它是像一头鲸鱼，还是像粼光闪烁的一条长蛇。

When a boat got close enough to the whale, the harpooner threw his harpoon at it.

等船非常接近鲸鱼时，鱼叉手就以鱼叉向牠投射。

In January 2006, a bottle-nosed whale died in the Thames after it was lifted on to a pontoon ready to be taken back out to sea.

2006年1月，一只搁浅的拜式鲸在被抬到驳船准备运回海中时不幸死亡。

The children had a whale of a time playing in the sand pit.

孩子们在沙坑里玩得非常高兴。

The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen.

在英国海岸发现的任何已死亡的鲸鱼，其头部自动归国王所有，而尾部则归女王所有。

So Glover analyzed the DNA of the 1996 whale captured in the North Atlantic, and found a shocker: It was a pure Antarctic whale.

于是格勒佛分析了那条1996年在北大西洋捕获鲸鱼的基因，发现一个惊人吃惊的结果：他是条纯种南极鲸。

The difference between whale poop and fish poop is that whale poop tends to float, or at least stay near the surface.

鲸鱼粪便与其他鱼类粪便的区别在于，鲸鱼粪便会漂浮在海面上，或者，至少停留在海面附近。

Michael got back on the boat and tried to cut the net off the whale with a small knife.

迈克尔回到船上，试图用一把小刀把捆住鲸鱼的网给割开。

when a whale strands , it is nearly always very ill . as such , there is often little option but to end the stranded whales suffering.

由于搁浅的鲸鱼几乎都已身患重病，因此人类通常都在别无选择的情况下把它们人道毁灭。

A humpback whale breathes air at the surface of the water through two blowholes which are located near the top of the head.

驼背鲸呼吸空气的方式是在水的表面，利用它头上面附近的二个通风孔。

A generation of Japanese schoolchildren grew up accustomed to having a bit of whale in their lunch boxes.

整整一代日本人在成长期都习惯在午餐合里放上一片鲸鱼。

Moreover, the bones in the front part of a baleen whale's lower jaw, or mandible, aren't fused as they are in other mammals.

另外，须鲸下颚前部的骨骼，也就是所说的下颌骨，并不像其他哺乳动物一样是愈合在一起的。

The humpback whale leapt out of the water and pulled the rigging and mast along with it as it slid down the boat.

肇事者是一头驼背鲸，它从水面跳出，然后扯下了桅杆上的绳子，把游艇拉翻了。

The shorter length of the Thames whale plus postmortem findings led the scientists to conclude it was a young animal.

泰晤士河的死鲸相对较短的长度让科学界得出结论，它是一条幼鲸。

The example that is often trotted out is from Beowulf where the kenning "whale road" is used to mean the sea.

一个被反复提及的例子出现在《贝奥武甫》里，书中用“鲸鱼之路”来借代海洋。

Neglect, dilapidation, storm and fire have gradually reduced it to a rusting hulk, like the rib-cage of a whale.

忽略掉它的破旧，还有暴风雨和大火慢慢地将它侵蚀成一座生锈的船一般，就像境遇的肋龙骨一样。

All in all, the experience made it hard for me to keep a straight face when people referred to whale as a "delicacy. "

总之，这次体验让我很难理解为什么人们会把鲸鱼当作一种美食。

The shaft of the ceremonial mace is the whorled tusk of a narwhal, a small Arctic whale. The door handles are of walrus tusk.

仪式权杖的螺纹杆是用一种小型的北极独角鲸的牙齿制成的，而门柄也是用海象的牙齿制成。

This occurred at a time that all kingdoms were fully conscious or self aware, although nonverbal like the dolphin and whale kingdoms.

这产生在所有王国都是全意识或自我意识的时期，尽管是象海豚和鲸鱼王国那样的非语言性质。

Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother.

澳大利亚媒体指出，一只迷路的座头鲸宝宝一直黏着一艘游艇，似乎以为游艇是它的妈妈。