whaling
美 [ˈhweɪlɪŋ]
英 ['weɪlɪŋ] 
- n.鲸鱼;捕鲸(业);〈非正式〉巨大的事物;令人印象深刻的事物
- v.捕鲸;击打;猛击
- 网络鲸钓;捕鲸业;捕鲸鱼叉
词形变化
复数:whales 现在分词:whaling 过去式:whaled
英汉双解
1. | 捕鲸(业)the activity or business of hunting and killing whales |
英汉解释
n. | 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. | |
英英解释
例句
Japan's government said it was considering strengthening security for the whaling fleet, but did not elaborate.
日本政府说正在考虑对这艘捕鲸船加强保护,但并没有对此作出详细说明。
so that, by the time the captain's party was ready to sail, there were several other whaling vessels on the point of starting.
于是,到船长的捕鲸队准备停当的时候,几艘其他的捕鲸船也正要出发了。
Japan should think about giving up Antarctic "research" , he said, in return for a limited resumption of commercial coastal whaling.
他表示,日本不应该再在南极地区进行研究性捕鲸,而应该有限制地恢复沿海商业捕鲸。
For the past several years he's been trying to stop the hunt in Taiji, one of Japan's iconic whaling towns.
在过去的几年里,他曾经试图阻止太地的捕杀行为,这里是日本捕鲸的代表符号。
Still, looking at a replica of a whaling ship in the museum, Mr Lang wonders whether groundfish boats will end up in a museum, too.
然而,看着博物馆里陈列的捕鲸油轮模型,朗先生怀疑,底栖鱼类捕捞船只最后会不会也被陈列在博物馆里。
This was a minor episode compared with a manoeuvre a week earlier bythe Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling body.
与一个星期前反对捕鲸的海洋看护协会的策略相比,这只是一个小插曲。
Moreover, he threw himself into an important friendship, at a time when he had probably written one draft of his sixth book, on whaling.
此外,在他写完第六部著作初稿的时候,他特别钻研了有关捕鲸的事,和它结下了不解之缘。
Japan take advantage of this loophole, by the name of scientific research whaling, killing hundreds of whales each year.
日本利用这一漏洞,借科研之名捕鲸,每年捕杀数百头鲸。
Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer.
超自然现象研究领域的专家们正在展开调查,探究一艘历史上著名的捕鲸船是否是死去海员亡灵的家园。
If the whaling disappears it would make me feel sad, because that means that the particular form of the culture fades out.
如果捕鲸业消失,我将为此感到难过,因为这意味着这种特殊的文化形式在慢慢消亡。
There has always been an element of theatre to the meetings of the IWC, which was set up in 1946 to regulate whaling around the world.
国际捕鲸委员会的会议一直都含有戏剧成分,它于1946年成立来管理全球的捕鲸活动。
Sea Shepherd has pledged to be there too. This was the closest Japan has come in 25 years to ending its Antarctic whaling programme.
海洋守护者协会已宣誓也开赴南极,这是25年来日本几乎终止南极捕鲸计划的一次。
Japanese whaling was always going to be a major sticking point on the IWC agenda in Madeira.
国际捕鲸委员会在马德拉举行的年会议程中,日本的捕鲸活动一直都是主要的议题。
The Pequod was a fairly small whaling ship the was sailing the next day.
佩廓德号是一条相当小的捕鲸船,次日就要出海了。
Japan and its allies must win the support of three-quarters of the IWC's members to overturn the moratorium on whaling adopted back in 1982.
日本及其盟友必须赢得国际捕鲸委员会成员三分之二的支持来推翻1982年的暂停捕鲸决议。
Greenpeace activists will take peaceful direct action against the fleet if it restarts whaling.
如果它重新开始捕鲸,绿色和平成员将采取和平的直接行动。
Villagers often drive young whales, not banned by the International Whaling Commis-sion, into the shallow bay to be killed. . .
村民经常将国际捕鲸委员会未禁捕的小鲸驱赶至浅水海湾捕杀…
So the plan might slow the steady creep up in whaling. But it wouldn't halt, or even curtail, the current hunt.
所以这项计划也许可以减缓捕鲸活动稳步增长的态势,但是不能终止,甚至不能减少目前的捕杀量。
Tokyo argues that its whaling program helps in the understanding of whale stocks as well as the health of the fragile Antarctic environment.
东京方面辨解称鲸鱼计划帮助人们了解现有的鲸鱼数量和脆弱的南极生态环境。
Yet it is only recently that we have truly turned from a whaling civilization to a whale-watching one.
但我们真正从一种捕鲸文明转向观鲸文明还是在最近。
The Sea Shepherd group has emerged as one of the most aggressive anti-whaling organizations.
海洋保护者协会是近年来出现的最激进的反捕鲸组织。
It could turn over the early whaling boats with one lash of its powerful tail .
它能用它有力的尾巴猛烈一甩打翻早期的捕鲸船。
Japan considers whaling to be a cultural tradition which it says it only undertakes for scientific research.
而日本则认为,捕鲸是他们的一个文化传统,并称被捕捞的鲸鱼仅用于科学研究。
One of seven grenades thrown at the anti-whaling vessel is thought to have exploded on deck.
七个弹中的一个被扔到反对捕鲸船上被以为是在甲板上爆炸的。
Letters sent from the North Pole or remote whaling stations are particularly in vogue at the moment .
目前,从北极点和偏远的捕鲸站发出的实寄封尤其抢手。
Japan, however, argued against the ban, saying whaling was a long tradition in the country and whale meat a key part of the Japanese diet.
然而日本长期以来一直抵制这条禁令。声称捕鲸是在日本拥有长久历史的一项传统,鲸鱼肉是日本人餐桌上的一个重要组成部分。
The Oshika peninsula, devastated by the tsunami, welcomes visitors by boasting of its two main industries, whaling and nuclear power.
被海啸破坏的牡鹿半岛,通过自夸其两项产业——捕鲸和核电来吸引游客。
A whaling executive has said Iceland would likely have to stop whaling in its bid to join the European Union.
一名捕鲸人员说,冰岛可能为了加入欧盟不得不停止捕鲸活动。
At its peak, whaling employed 70, 000 people and was the United States' fifth-largest industry.
在全盛时期,捕鲸业雇佣了7万人,是美国第五大工业。
"This is a crass act of violence by the Japanese whaling fleet backed up by the Japanese government, " he said.
他说:“这是日本捕鲸船在日本政府的支持下挑起的赤裸裸的暴力事件。”
This gives Chinese people a bad image, just like the Japanese and whaling.
这个问题对中国人的形象很不好,就像日本捕鲸一样。
The demonstrators are calling for Japan to stop using scientific research as a cover for commercial whaling in the world's southern oceans.
游行者要求日本停止这种在世界南大洋以科学研究为幌子实则商业性的捕鲸行径。
The company behind Iceland's fin whaling industry is planning a huge export of whalemeat to Japan.
冰岛长须鲸加工工业公司计划向日本出口大量鲸鱼肉。
It would reverse the emerging global consensus for whale conservation and inexplicably legitimize commercial whaling.
它将倒转国际间日渐形成的对于鲸鱼保护的共识并难以理解地使商业捕鲸合法化。
"We are going to use, if appropriate, military resources to monitor the activities of the whaling vessels, " said McClelland.
麦克理兰说:「状况允许的话,我们将以军方资源监控捕鲸船的活动」。
South Atlantic sanctuary, barred to all whaling, would be rigorously enforced.
一项全面禁止捕鲸的“南大西洋鲸鱼避难所”提案将会被严格执行。
Japan has long resisted pressure to stop scientific whaling, insisting whaling is a cherished cultural tradition.
日本长期抵制要求其停止科研捕鲸的压力,坚称捕鲸是一个优良的文化传统。
A relic from the 19th century, a beached ship anchor lies near the ruins of a whaling station on New Island in the Falkland Islands.
在福克兰群岛的新岛上,一个被拖上岸的船锚搁置在捕鲸站的废墟旁,这些都是来自19世纪的遗迹。
Japan's whaling fleet is sailing towards Antarctica on a mission to hunt and kill over 900 whales, including up to 50 humpbacks .
日本捕鲸船队正朝南极洲航行;这个捕鲸队计划猎杀900多头鲸鱼,其中包括多达50头座头鲸。
Now that the two Sea Shepherd members have been released, the controversial whaling expedition will resume.
现在既然已释放了这两名海洋守护协会的成员,他们引发争议的捕鲸活动将继续进行。