whale

B1 CET-4 初中 FREQ #4930 ★★☆☆☆

n. 鲸 vi. 捕鲸 vt. 使惨败, 猛揍

发音

US /weɪl/
SCOT /ʍel/

词形变化

whales 复数 whales whales 三单 whaling 现在分词 whaled 过去式 whaled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

鲸；巨大的东西

a very large animal that lives in the sea and looks like a fish, but is actually a mammal

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within the infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.

    Near-synonym: baleen (obsolete sense)

  2. 2.

    Any species of Cetacea.

    鲸鱼

    海翁

  3. 3.

    Something, or someone, that is very large.

    比喻

    It was a whale of a job. […] It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.

  4. 4.

    Something, or someone, that is excellent.

    比喻

    My own father only wrote one poem in his life as far as I know, but it was a whale of a lyric, the kind you would give your whole life to write, which he did, but that is another story.

  5. 5.

    A gambler who routinely wagers large amounts of money.

    比喻 游戏
  6. 6.

    An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.

    比喻 非正式 商务 金融
  7. 7.

    A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.

    比喻 商务
  8. 8.

    An overweight person (usually a woman)

    非正式 贬义 比喻
v.
  1. 1.

    To hunt for whales.

    捕鲸

    不及物
  2. 1.

    To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.

    俚语 及物

    Brought him back, put him in the stall—low stable—got out of his reach, and then begun to whale him. Then he kicked up agin; […]

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:whale.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

giant hulk heavyweight

上位词 2

blower cetacean

下位词 7

baleen whale narwal narwhal narwhale spouter toothed whale whalebone whale
动词

上位词 4

run hunt hunt down track down

相关短语

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词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos Proto-Germanic *hwalaz Proto-West Germanic *hwal Old English hwæl Middle English whal English whale From Middle English whal, whale, from Old English hwæl (“whale”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (“whale”) (compare German Wal, Swedish val, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hval, Norwegian Nynorsk kval; compare also Dutch walvis, West Frisian walfisk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”) (compare German Wels, Latin squalus (“big sea fish”), Old Prussian kalis, Ancient Greek ἄσπαλος (áspalos), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 (kara, “kind of fish”)).

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