whale
US:/hweɪl/
UK:/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
Word forms: (复数) whales (现在分词) whaling (过去式) whaled
Examples
1.
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。
2.
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。
3.
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。
4.
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。
5.
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。
6.
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。
7.
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。
8.
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。
9.
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。
10.
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。