porpoise

FREQ #40846

n. 海豚, 鼠海豚

发音

UK /ˈpɔːpəs/
UK /pɔːˈpɔɪs/
US /ˈpɔːɹpəs/

词形变化

porpoises 复数 porpoises porpoised porpoises 三单 porpoising porpoising 现在分词 porpoised 过去式 porpoised 过去分词

别名

porcpisce porpess porpesse porpus

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.

    鼠海豚

    Near-synonyms: sea hog, sea pig, seaswine, mereswine

  2. 2.

    Any small dolphin.

    加拿大 美国
v.
  1. 1.

    Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

dolphin

下位词 1

vaquita

相关短语

harbour porpoise finless porpoise 江豚 Dall's porpoise spectacled porpoise

词源

From Middle English porpeys, purpeys, borrowed from Anglo-Norman porpeis, purpeis, Old French pourpois, porpois, pourpais, porpeis (“porpoise”), from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis (“porpoise”, literally “hog-fish”), taken from Latin porcus (“hog, pig”) + piscis (“fish”). Compare (in transposed order) obsolete Italian pesce porco and Portuguese peixe porco; also Latin porcus marīnus (“sea hog”); akin in formation to Frankish *mariswīn (“porpoise, dolphin”) (whence German Meerschwein, English mereswine). Displaced native Middle English brunswyn. |More at mereswine.

来源：wiktionary