gharial

gharial

美 ['gæriɑ:l] 　英 ['gæriɑ:l]

• n.食魚鱷（棲于南亞）
• 網絡恒河鱷；印度鱷；大鱷魚

詞形變化

復數：gharials  

英漢解釋

n.	1. a large reptile resembling a crocodile that has a very long narrow snout and feeds on fish and frogs.

例句

This female gharial is responding to calls from her young, telling her they're ready to enter their new world.

這條雌性的恒河鱷正在回應它孩子的呼喚，知道孩子已準備好來到這新世界。

I mean , just incredible to see bunches of gharial basking on the river again .

看到成群的長吻鄂在河邊曬日光浴，感覺真是太棒了。

Despite its fearsome appearance and lengths of up to 19 feet (6 meters), the Indian gharial is not a man-eater and prefers to eat fish.

盡管它外表可怕，長度達到19英尺（6米），印度鱷不是食人魚，它喜歡吃魚。

But we , actually, back in the early ' 70s, did surveys , and found that gharial were extremely rare .

在70年代的時候，我們做過調查，發現長吻鄂已經十分稀有。

Its eye sockets project upward -- like those of the living gharial in India -- for scanning the river's edge while submerged.

它的眼睛，像印度食魚鱷一樣向上突起，當它沉入水里時可以掃視河邊。

One of them was the remarkable gharial.

一個是非比尋常的長吻鄂。

Male gharial that grow up to six metres long also inhabit these waters, and at night they're on the hunt.

但是這里可能也是危機四伏。長達六米的雄恒河鱷同樣棲息河里，在晚間覓食。

So this precious brood represents a new generation of hope for the endangered gharial .

所以這些珍貴的幼兒代表了瀕臨絕種的恒河鱷新一代的希望。

So, in fact at this point there are only 200 breeding gharial left in the wild.

事實上，目前世界上僅有200多條成年長吻鄂。

A brown bear looms behind the gharial.

后面還立著一只棕熊。

This is the home of the gharial, this incredible crocodile.

也是長吻鄂的家鄉。