whale是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

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

变形：

复数：whales  现在分词：whaling  过去式：whaled  

完整释义：

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

例句：

1. 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。

2. 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。

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. 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。

6. 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。

7. 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。

8. 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。