porpoise

英 ['pɔːpəs; 'pɒpɒɪs] 美['pɔrpəs]

IELTS畅通词汇哺乳动物

复数: porpoises;

porpoise 海豚，鼠海豚

来自古法语porpais,猪鱼，海豚，来自porc,猪，词源同pork,peis,鱼，词源同fish.因海豚圆鼓鼓的肚子形如猪肚而得名。

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

porpoise: porpoise: [14] The porpoise is etymologically the ‘pig-fish’. The word comes via Old French porpois from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis, a compound formed from porcus ‘pig’ (source of English pork) and piscis ‘fish’ (a relative of English fish) and based on the model of Latin porcus marīnus ‘sea-pig’. The name may have been suggested by the porpoise’s snout.
=> fish, pork
porpoise (n.): early 14c., porpas, from Old French porpais (12c.) "porpoise," literally "pork fish," from porc "pork" (see pork (n.)) + peis "fish," from Latin piscis "fish" (see fish (n.)).

The Old French word probably is a loan-translation of a Germanic word meaning literally "sea-hog, mere-swine," such as Old Norse mar-svin, Old High German meri-swin, Middle Dutch mereswijn "porpoise" (the last of which also was borrowed directly into French and became Modern French marsouin).

Classical Latin had a similar name, porculus marinus (in Pliny), and the notion behind the name likely is a fancied resemblance of the snout to that of a pig.

He no sooner recovers his equilibrium the next porpoise comes and hits him another crack.: 海龟还没来得及恢复平衡,另外一只海豚又过来撞它一下.

Whether it be bird, fish or beast, porpoise is intrigued with anything that is alive.: 不管是鸟类, 鱼类还是野兽, 海豚感兴趣的是活着的动物.

Whether it be bird, fish or beast, the porpoise is intrigued with anything that is alive.: 海豚对凡是活的东西都感兴趣, 不管是鸟、是鱼,还是野兽.

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.

A corpse rising saltwhite from the undertow, bobbing landward, a pace a pace a porpoise.: 自得像盐一样的尸体从退浪底下浮上来, 又一拱一拱的,像海豚似地漂向岸去.

Whether it be bird, fish or beast , the porpoise is intrigued with anyting that is alive.: 无论是鸟类, 鱼类或者兽类, 海豚都会被激起兴趣.

He no sooner recovers his equilibrium than the next porpoise comes and hits him another crack.: 海龟刚恢复平衡,第二只海豚又到了,又给它啪一击.

The populatio n size of finless porpoise in this Lake is about 100～150 individuals.: 洞庭湖各支流中已看不到江豚的踪迹.

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.