porpoise meaning in Chinese
n.
1.【动物；动物学】海豚。
2.前后振动；波动。
短语和例子
vi.
1.(船)在水面急行。
2.(鱼雷)在水面急驶。
Examples
- A shoal of porpoises are well on the feed .
一群海豚正在吞食。 - There has long been a superstition among mariners that porpoises will save drowning men .
长久以来，海员们有一种迷信，那就是海豚会搭救快要淹死的人。 - He no sooner recovers his equilibrium than the next porpoise comes along 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。 - He is now satisfied merely to try to stand up , but as soon as he does so a porpoise knocks him flat .
海龟现在只图能站起来就满足了。但是，它一站起来，一只海豚就把它撞倒。 - In 1928 some porpoises were photographed working like beavers to push ashore a waterlogged mattress .
1928年有人把这些海豚象海狸那样把一床浸泡了水的褥垫推上岸时的情景拍摄了下来。