dolphins是什么意思？

dolphins

英['dɒlfɪns] 美['dɒlfɪns]

• n. 海豚（ dolphin的名词复数 ）；

例句

• They encouraged me to meet the dolphins along the Earth's bandwidths. 他们鼓励我去见了海豚沿著地球的带宽.
• a school of dolphins 一群海豚
• Dolphins have sometimes been known to save drowning swimmers. 据悉海豚有时会救溺水的游泳者。
• A cetacean ( Grampus griseus ) related to and resembling the dolphins but lacking a beaklike snout. 灰海豚,逆戟鲸一种与海豚有亲缘关系并形似海豚的鲸类动物 ( 灰海豚灰海豚属 ),但缺少喙状口鼻部.
• Many dolphins die each year from entanglement in fishing nets. 每年都有许多海豚被捕鱼网缠绕致死。
• They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling. 他们见利忘义地试图以减少屠杀海豚数量作为交换条件，重启商业捕鲸。
• The greenish - yellow amphora has handles formed in the shape of dolphins. 装红酒的瓶子呈绿黄色,有海豚状的手柄.
• A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die... 那片区域里的很大一部分海豚终将死去。
• Whales and dolphins are still being slaughtered for commercial gain. 仍然有人为了商业利益大肆捕杀鲸鱼和海豚。
• Marine biologists are calling for Cardigan Bay to be created a marine nature reserve to protect the dolphins. 海洋生物学家号召将卡迪根湾建成一个海洋自然保护区，以保护那里的海豚。

英语六级真题

One of the most interesting experiments with dolphins must be one done by Doctor Jarvis Bastian.
出自-2012年6月听力原文
Well, first of all, he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taught them to press levers whenever they saw a light
出自-2012年6月听力原文
If the light flashed on and off several times, the dolphins were supposed to press the left-hand lever followed by the right-hand one.
出自-2012年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  海豚
  A dolphin is a mammal which lives in the sea and looks like a large fish with a pointed mouth.