whale

n.

[动]鲸，鲸鱼；巨大的事物；

v.

捕鲸；击打，猛击；

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

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

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。

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。

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