whale是什么意思_whale怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

whale: whale: [OE] Whale comes from a prehistoric Germanic *khwal-, which also produced Swedish and Danish hval and the wal- of German walfisch ‘whale’. The expression a whale of, meaning ‘no end of’, originated in the USA towards the end of the 19th century.
whale (n.): Old English hwæl "whale," also "walrus," from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (cognates: Old Saxon hwal, Old Norse hvalr, hvalfiskr, Swedish val, Middle Dutch wal, walvisc, Dutch walvis, Old High German wal, German Wal), from PIE *(s)kwal-o- (cognates: Latin squalus "a kind of large sea fish"). Phrase whale of a "excellent or large example" is c. 1900, student slang. Whale-oil attested from mid-15c.
whale (v.2): "beat, whip severely," 1790, possibly a variant of wale (v.) "to mark with "wales" or stripes" (early 15c.), from wale (n.). Related: Whaled; whaling.
whale (v.1): "pursue the business of whale-fishing," 1700, from whale (n.). Whale-fishing is attested from 1570s.

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权威造句

1. The blue whale is the largest living thing on the planet.: 蓝鲸是地球上体型最大的生物。

2. I had a whale of a time in Birmingham.: 我在伯明翰度过了一段非常快乐的时光。

3. Norwegian whalers said yesterday they had harpooned a female minke whale.: 挪威的捕鲸人说昨天他们用捕鲸叉捕获了一头雌性小须鲸。

4. Whale-watching has become a growth leisure industry.: 观鲸业已经成为一个快速发展的休闲产业。

5. A whale is a fish. True or false?: 鲸鱼是鱼，对还是错？

近反义词

giant 巨人

leviathan 大海兽

white whale 白鲸

beluga 白鲟

blue whale 蓝鲸

sperm whale 巨头鲸

finback 长须鲸

humpback 驼背

sea monster (神话中的) 海怪...

cetacean 鲸类动物

aquatic mammal 水栖哺乳动物...

humpback whale 座头鲸

gray whale 灰鲸科

enormity 暴行

colossus 庞然大物

Titan 巨人（物）

mammoth 巨大的

hulk 废船

heavyweight 超过平均重量的人或物...

相似短语

whale shark phr. 鲸鲨

whale louse phr. 鲸虱

toothed whale phr. 齿鲸

black whale phr. 黑线鲸鱼

piked whale phr. 小须鲸

whale sucker phr. 澳洲印鱼

finback whale n.长须鲸

minke whale 小须鲸

Beached whale 搁浅的鲸鱼

cow whale 母鲸

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