humpback

英 [ˈhʌmpbæk]

美 [ˈhʌmpbæk]

n.  座头鲸

复数：humpbacks　过去式：humpbacked　

TEM8医学

BNC.36890 / COCA.21537

柯林斯词典

• 座头鲸
  Ahumpbackor ahumpback whaleis a large whale with a curved back.

英英释义

noun

• large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
  Synonym:humpback whaleMegaptera novaeangliae
• a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
  Synonym:hunchbackcrookback
• an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
  Synonym:kyphosishunchback

双语例句

• It features video of humpback whales frolicking in the sea and Australia's Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull interviewing Australian children who oppose Japan's whaling program.
  该影片录制了驼背鲸在水中嬉戏的画面以及澳大利亚环境部长MalcolmTurnball对反日本鲸鱼项目的澳大利亚儿童的采访。
• Some of the kinds of whales are the blue whale, the humpback, the gray whale, and the white whale.
  鲸鱼的种类还包括蓝鲸，座头鲸，灰鲸和白鲸。
• First prize went to Bryce Flynn of Woburn, Massachusetts who took this amazing shot ( above) of a humpback whale feeding.
  一等奖前往布莱斯的沃本弗林，谁参加了这个惊人的马萨诸塞州的一杆座头鲸喂养（段）。
• Humpback whales, protected under a1966 worldwide moratorium by International Whaling Commission after years of overhunting, are renowned for their complex songs and acrobatic displays.
  座头鲸以会“唱动听的歌曲”和表演杂技而著称。多年来，座头鲸被人类过度捕猎，1966年，国际捕鲸委员会出台捕杀禁令以保护这一物种。
• Researchers in Australia have discovered that some tunes sung by mating humpback whales become popular across the ocean and are copied by other whales thousands of kilometres away.
  澳大利亚研究人员发现，交配期驼背鲸唱的一些旋律会在大洋中流行，并且会被几千千米外的其他鲸模仿。
• A fisherman fishing just east of the Farallon Islands spotted a female humpback whale entangled in a web of crab traps and lines.
  一天，一名在法拉隆群岛东边打鱼的渔民发现一条雌性座头鲸被捕蟹网缠住。
• What scientists do know is that the journey of this humpback shows the flexibility in whales'behavior and ability to behave in ways we don't understand.
  科学家们只知道，这头座头鲸的旅行充分展示了鲸鱼的灵活性，它们身上，还有人们尚未了解的行为方式。
• And comparing with standard fin-type pool experimental data under the same condition, we find that the imitating humpback whale fin stabilizer fin-type can provide more lift in the same angle of attack.
  在与相同条件下的标准鳍型水池实验数据进行对比我们发现在攻角相同的情况，仿驼背鲸鳍这种鳍型能提供更大的升力。
• Male humpback whales combine groans, cries and shrieks into repeated patterns to make up their signature song.
  雄鲸将叹息，哭泣和尖叫组合起来，形成有特色的歌声。
• Male humpback whales have their own version of popular songs, and their hits spread through the ocean to other whales, according to an Australian study released.
  澳大利亚研究人员近期发现，雄性座头鲸也有“流行歌曲”，他们所唱之歌能够长距离“传唱”给其他鲸类。