porpoise

英 [ˈpɔːpəs]

美 [ˈpɔːrpəs]

n.  钝吻海豚; 鼠海豚

复数：porpoises　现在分词：porpoising　过去式：porpoised　

TOEFL

BNC.17642 / COCA.23262

牛津词典

noun

• 钝吻海豚；鼠海豚
  a sea animal that looks like a large fish with a pointed mouth. Porpoises are similar to dolphins but smaller.

柯林斯词典

• 鼠海豚
  Aporpoiseis a sea animal that looks like a large grey fish. Porpoises usually swim about in groups.

英英释义

noun

• any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

双语例句

• Study on biology of finless porpoise from Yangtze river in captivity
  长江江豚的饲养和观察
• The busy shipping activities, such as transporting sand, block the porpoise's migration channel between Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River and prevent gene exchange, said Jiang Yong, the Changsha program director of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
  据世界自然基金会长沙项目办主任蒋勇介绍，繁忙的运砂等航运活动阻塞了江豚在洞庭湖与长江之间迁徙通道，妨碍了基因交流。
• The young porpoise just a birth, the mother then promoted it the water surface to breathe the first air.
  幼海豚刚一出生，母亲便把它推出水面呼吸第一口空气。
• ` They were obliged to have him with them, 'the Mock Turtle said:` no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'
  它们不得不要海豚，素甲鱼说，没有一种聪明的鱼外出旅行时，不要海豚的。
• The porpoise likes "the collective" the life, are few then several heads, many pieces of several hundred heads.
  海豚喜欢过“集体”生活，少则几头，多则几百头。
• The Finless Porpoise is another resident marine mammal species.
  此外，江豚是另一种在本港海域栖居的海洋哺乳类动物。
• And over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall put in its poles.
  11在金坛上要铺蓝色布，蒙上海狗皮盖，并把杠穿上。
• The porpoise can be intimate with the humanity, and also firmly can be saved person's fact.
  海豚能够亲近人类，并且也确有救人的事迹。
• When young porpoise birth, the tail first leaves, because if first leaves, can have the danger which is drown to death.
  幼海豚出生时，尾先出，因为如果头先出，就会有溺死的危险。
• Observation on Diurnal Activity Rhythm of Yangtze Finless Porpoise in the Semi-nature Aqueous Reserve during Spring
  半自然水域中长江江豚春季昼间活动节律的观察