英语释义

• hunt for whales

• a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

• any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head

片语

pilot whale巨头鲸

baleen whale须鲸（等于whalebone whale）

humpback whale座头鲸；驼背鲸

Whale watching观看鲸鱼

killer whale【动物】逆戟鲸，[脊椎] 虎鲸

white whale[脊椎] 白鲸

a whale of a了不起的

beaked whale突吻鲸；剑吻鲸；喙鲸

blue whale[脊椎] 蓝鲸

Whale shark[鱼] 鲸鲨

whale shark[鱼] 鲸鲨

Whale Rider鲸骑士（电影名）

A WhaleA Whale is a Liberian-flagged ore-oil carrier built in 2010 by Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea for TMT C Ltd.

sei whale鳁鲸

fin whale长须鲸，鳍鲸

sperm whale巨头鲸；[脊椎] 抹香鲸（等于Physeter catodon）

right whale[脊椎] 露脊鲸

whale meat鲸鱼肉

fail whale失败鲸

英汉例句

• it also stated that pregnant orbreast-feeding women should refrain from eating any pilot whale meat at all.

  这份建议还提及孕妇以及哺乳期内的妇女应该完全避免食用领航鲸肉。

• mr payne, 75, is best known for his 1968 discovery and recordings of songs by humpback whales, and for finding that some whale species can communicate with each other over long distances.

  佩恩先生，75岁，最为知名的是他在1968年发现座头鲸并为其歌声录音，还发现一些鲸鱼物种可以相距遥远仍可彼此沟通。

• without whale oil, so the thinking went, the world would slide backward toward darkness.

  按照这样的思维下去，如果没有鲸鱼油，世界将会倒退回黑暗时代。

• the whale nearest to the photographer is releasing air to aid its descent.

  这只离摄影师最近的白鲸正呼出空气以帮助其下潜。

• it is not freezing but even in summer the wind is bitingly cold and we can smell the bad breath of a humpback whale as it groans past our bows on sermilik fjord.

  天气还不是最冷的时候，但即使在夏天，风也是寒冷刺骨。当驼背鲸哼哼着经过我们的船头向塞尔米利克峡湾游去时，我们闻得到它的口臭。

• traditionally, japan has been the best at netting extra votes, including schools of small pacific and caribbean nations with no taste for whale meat but a hunger for japanese aid.

  传统说来，日本在笼络额外票数方面一直最在行，包括那些对鲸鱼肉没有喜爱、却对日本的援助充满渴望的太平洋和加勒比海小国。

• add to the sensory experience the accumulated mercury to be found in whale meat.

  食用鲸肉时，不只得到感官上的享受，也会在体内累积汞元素。

• japan will belooking for signs that australia's concern for the future of the whale is notpart of some wider agenda.

  澳洲对捕鲸未来的关心是不是一些更广泛议程的一部分，日本会努力寻找这样的信号的。

• though immaculately clean and comfortable, and in a beautiful setting, it is a clinic, not a spa: there’s no namby-pamby faffing around with rose petals and whale music.

  它虽然非常清洁舒 适，环境优美，毕竟是一家诊所，而不是一个水疗吧：没有矫柔感伤地在玫瑰花瓣和鲸鱼音乐环绕之下无事瞎忙的感觉。

• the whale is a mammal.

  鲸鱼是哺乳动物。

• the researchers are sharing their real-time data on whale locations, transmitted from the buoys via satellite, with tanker captains, who can then slow down their ships or alter course to avoid whales.

  研究人员正分享他们的实时数据去为鲸鱼定位，通过卫星与油轮船长从浮标传送数据，船长能放慢船速或改变航道来避开鲸鱼。

• but the reason that international whale conservation work continues is not just because whales are endangered.

  但是，国际鲸保育工作继续的理由并不仅仅因为鲸是濒临灭绝。

• the two fleets expect to meet in the antarctic whale sanctuary before christmas and will shadow and confront each other for at least 12 weeks.

  双方舰队将在圣诞节前相会于南极鲸鱼保护区，并在接下来的至少12个星期里相互追蹤相互对抗。

• even within our own class, mammals, roughly 300 new species have been discovered in the first decade of this century—mostly rodents, but also marsupials, a beaked whale and a slew of primates.

  按照我们的分类标準，仅是本世纪的头十年，我们就发现了大约300种哺乳动物新物种——大部分是啮齿类，也有有袋类，突吻鲸类以及大量的灵长类动物。

• yea you heard me right, they are on a tie with the killer whale for the top predator animals.

  是的，你听我说是正确的，他们是紧随虎鲸（逆戟鲸）之后的，顶级肉食动物！啊？

• the white whale of energy, scientists have been hyping the potential of nuclear fusion since, oh, the first hydrogen bomb was dropped over the marshall islands in 1952.

  能源的大白鲸，自从，噢，第一颗氢弹在1952年被投掷在马绍尔群岛以来，科学家们一直都在大肆宣传核聚变的潜力。

• so whale come out fish, because they are fish obviously.

  所以鲸鱼就是鱼，因为他们显然是鱼。

• they do not have a set migration pattern, unlike some other whale species - which raises questions about how they may adapt in future, if the projected declines in summer arctic sea ice materialise.

  它们没有一套迁徙的模式，不像其他的鲸类――假如夏季北极海冰像预计那样减少而成为现实的话，这就引起了关于它们如何适应未来的问题。

• in addition, a new whale sanctuary would be established in the south atlantic, although no whaling actually occurs there now.

  除此之外，在南大西洋将建立一个新的鲸鱼保护区，虽然目前还没有在那里发现捕鲸行为。