whale
英 [weɪl] 美 [hwel, wel]

n.

[动]鲸，鲸鱼；巨大的事物；

v.

捕鲸；击打，猛击；

变形

复数：whales过去式：whaled过去分词：whaled现在分词：whaling第三人称单数：whales

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C] 鲸,鲸鱼 any of several types of very large mammal that live in the sea, some of which are hunted for their oil and flesh

英英释义

whale[ hweil ]

• n.
  • a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

    同义词：gianthulkheavyweight

  • any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
• v.hunt for whales

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

• catch a whale得大利

形容词+～

• blue whale蓝鲸
• bull〔cow〕 whale雄〔雌〕鲸
• gray whale灰鲸

名词+～

• humpback whale座头鲸
• sperm whale抹香鲸

介词+～

• a school of whales一群鲸鱼

～+介词

• whale at〔for, on〕善于…的人,热衷于…的人
• a whale of极大的,极好的,了不起的

词组短语

a whale of a[美国口语]了不起的，非常大的，极大的；极好的，精彩的

blue whale[动]蓝鲸

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

killer whale[动]逆戟鲸

white whale白鲸

whale meat鲸鱼肉

right whale露脊鲸

humpback whale座头鲸；驼背鲸

whale shark鲸鲨

beaked whale突吻鲸；[动]剑吻鲸；喙鲸

更多收起词组短语

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. We may live to see the extinction of the whale.
   人类或许能亲眼见到鲸的灭绝。
2. The whale thrashed the water with its tail.
   那条鲸鱼不住地用尾巴击水。
3. The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
   蓝鲸是当今最大的动物。

用作动词(v.)

1. He used to whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me.
   他从前没喝醉的时候，只要能抓住我，总要打我一通。

权威例句

Whale songs lengthen in response to sonar
Ecology of whale falls at the deep-sea floor
Long term preservation of whale skin for DNA analysis
Demography of the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Do Artifacts Have Politics - The whale and the reactor : a search for limits in an age of high technology
Estes JA, Tinker MT, Williams TM, and Doak DF. Killer whale predation on sea otters linking oceanic and nearshore ecosystems. Science
Structure of myoglobin refined at 2-0 A resolution. II. Structure of deoxymyoglobin from sperm whale
The shared wireless infostation model:a new ad hoc networking paradigm (or where there is a whale, there is a way)
Species identification using genetic tools: the value of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences in whale conservation
Structure of myoglobin refined at 2·0 Å resolution : I. Crystallographic refinement of metmyoglobin from sperm whale