whaling
美 [?hwe?l??]
英 ['we?l??] 
- n.鯨魚;捕鯨(業(yè));〈非正式〉巨大的事物;令人印象深刻的事物
- v.捕鯨;擊打;猛擊
- 網(wǎng)絡鯨釣;捕鯨業(yè);捕鯨魚叉
詞形變化
復數(shù):whales 現(xiàn)在分詞:whaling 過去式:whaled
英漢雙解
1. | 捕鯨(業(yè))the activity or business of hunting and killing whales |
英漢解釋
n. | 2. 〈非正式〉巨大的事物; 令人印象深刻的事物; 令人愉悅的事物 |
v. | |
英英解釋
例句
Japan's government said it was considering strengthening security for the whaling fleet, but did not elaborate.
日本政府說正在考慮對這艘捕鯨船加強保護,但并沒有對此作出詳細說明。
so that, by the time the captain's party was ready to sail, there were several other whaling vessels on the point of starting.
于是,到船長的捕鯨隊準備停當的時候,幾艘其他的捕鯨船也正要出發(fā)了。
Japan should think about giving up Antarctic "research" , he said, in return for a limited resumption of commercial coastal whaling.
他表示,日本不應該再在南極地區(qū)進行研究性捕鯨,而應該有限制地恢復沿海商業(yè)捕鯨。
For the past several years he's been trying to stop the hunt in Taiji, one of Japan's iconic whaling towns.
在過去的幾年里,他曾經(jīng)試圖阻止太地的捕殺行為,這里是日本捕鯨的代表符號。
Still, looking at a replica of a whaling ship in the museum, Mr Lang wonders whether groundfish boats will end up in a museum, too.
然而,看著博物館里陳列的捕鯨油輪模型,朗先生懷疑,底棲魚類捕撈船只最后會不會也被陳列在博物館里。
This was a minor episode compared with a manoeuvre a week earlier bythe Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling body.
與一個星期前反對捕鯨的海洋看護協(xié)會的策略相比,這只是一個小插曲。
Moreover, he threw himself into an important friendship, at a time when he had probably written one draft of his sixth book, on whaling.
此外,在他寫完第六部著作初稿的時候,他特別鉆研了有關捕鯨的事,和它結下了不解之緣。
Japan take advantage of this loophole, by the name of scientific research whaling, killing hundreds of whales each year.
日本利用這一漏洞,借科研之名捕鯨,每年捕殺數(shù)百頭鯨。
Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer.
超自然現(xiàn)象研究領域的專家們正在展開調(diào)查,探究一艘歷史上著名的捕鯨船是否是死去海員亡靈的家園。
If the whaling disappears it would make me feel sad, because that means that the particular form of the culture fades out.
如果捕鯨業(yè)消失,我將為此感到難過,因為這意味著這種特殊的文化形式在慢慢消亡。
There has always been an element of theatre to the meetings of the IWC, which was set up in 1946 to regulate whaling around the world.
國際捕鯨委員會的會議一直都含有戲劇成分,它于1946年成立來管理全球的捕鯨活動。
Sea Shepherd has pledged to be there too. This was the closest Japan has come in 25 years to ending its Antarctic whaling programme.
海洋守護者協(xié)會已宣誓也開赴南極,這是25年來日本幾乎終止南極捕鯨計劃的一次。
Japanese whaling was always going to be a major sticking point on the IWC agenda in Madeira.
國際捕鯨委員會在馬德拉舉行的年會議程中,日本的捕鯨活動一直都是主要的議題。
The Pequod was a fairly small whaling ship the was sailing the next day.
佩廓德號是一條相當小的捕鯨船,次日就要出海了。
Japan and its allies must win the support of three-quarters of the IWC's members to overturn the moratorium on whaling adopted back in 1982.
日本及其盟友必須贏得國際捕鯨委員會成員三分之二的支持來推翻1982年的暫停捕鯨決議。
Greenpeace activists will take peaceful direct action against the fleet if it restarts whaling.
如果它重新開始捕鯨,綠色和平成員將采取和平的直接行動。
Villagers often drive young whales, not banned by the International Whaling Commis-sion, into the shallow bay to be killed. . .
村民經(jīng)常將國際捕鯨委員會未禁捕的小鯨驅(qū)趕至淺水海灣捕殺…
So the plan might slow the steady creep up in whaling. But it wouldn't halt, or even curtail, the current hunt.
所以這項計劃也許可以減緩捕鯨活動穩(wěn)步增長的態(tài)勢,但是不能終止,甚至不能減少目前的捕殺量。
Tokyo argues that its whaling program helps in the understanding of whale stocks as well as the health of the fragile Antarctic environment.
東京方面辨解稱鯨魚計劃幫助人們了解現(xiàn)有的鯨魚數(shù)量和脆弱的南極生態(tài)環(huán)境。
Yet it is only recently that we have truly turned from a whaling civilization to a whale-watching one.
但我們真正從一種捕鯨文明轉(zhuǎn)向觀鯨文明還是在最近。
The Sea Shepherd group has emerged as one of the most aggressive anti-whaling organizations.
海洋保護者協(xié)會是近年來出現(xiàn)的最激進的反捕鯨組織。
It could turn over the early whaling boats with one lash of its powerful tail .
它能用它有力的尾巴猛烈一甩打翻早期的捕鯨船。
Japan considers whaling to be a cultural tradition which it says it only undertakes for scientific research.
而日本則認為,捕鯨是他們的一個文化傳統(tǒng),并稱被捕撈的鯨魚僅用于科學研究。
One of seven grenades thrown at the anti-whaling vessel is thought to have exploded on deck.
七個彈中的一個被扔到反對捕鯨船上被以為是在甲板上爆炸的。
Letters sent from the North Pole or remote whaling stations are particularly in vogue at the moment .
目前,從北極點和偏遠的捕鯨站發(fā)出的實寄封尤其搶手。
Japan, however, argued against the ban, saying whaling was a long tradition in the country and whale meat a key part of the Japanese diet.
然而日本長期以來一直抵制這條禁令。聲稱捕鯨是在日本擁有長久歷史的一項傳統(tǒng),鯨魚肉是日本人餐桌上的一個重要組成部分。
The Oshika peninsula, devastated by the tsunami, welcomes visitors by boasting of its two main industries, whaling and nuclear power.
被海嘯破壞的牡鹿半島,通過自夸其兩項產(chǎn)業(yè)——捕鯨和核電來吸引游客。
A whaling executive has said Iceland would likely have to stop whaling in its bid to join the European Union.
一名捕鯨人員說,冰島可能為了加入歐盟不得不停止捕鯨活動。
At its peak, whaling employed 70, 000 people and was the United States' fifth-largest industry.
在全盛時期,捕鯨業(yè)雇傭了7萬人,是美國第五大工業(yè)。
"This is a crass act of violence by the Japanese whaling fleet backed up by the Japanese government, " he said.
他說:“這是日本捕鯨船在日本政府的支持下挑起的赤裸裸的暴力事件。”
This gives Chinese people a bad image, just like the Japanese and whaling.
這個問題對中國人的形象很不好,就像日本捕鯨一樣。
The demonstrators are calling for Japan to stop using scientific research as a cover for commercial whaling in the world's southern oceans.
游行者要求日本停止這種在世界南大洋以科學研究為幌子實則商業(yè)性的捕鯨行徑。
The company behind Iceland's fin whaling industry is planning a huge export of whalemeat to Japan.
冰島長須鯨加工工業(yè)公司計劃向日本出口大量鯨魚肉。
It would reverse the emerging global consensus for whale conservation and inexplicably legitimize commercial whaling.
它將倒轉(zhuǎn)國際間日漸形成的對于鯨魚保護的共識并難以理解地使商業(yè)捕鯨合法化。
"We are going to use, if appropriate, military resources to monitor the activities of the whaling vessels, " said McClelland.
麥克理蘭說:「狀況允許的話,我們將以軍方資源監(jiān)控捕鯨船的活動」。
South Atlantic sanctuary, barred to all whaling, would be rigorously enforced.
一項全面禁止捕鯨的“南大西洋鯨魚避難所”提案將會被嚴格執(zhí)行。
Japan has long resisted pressure to stop scientific whaling, insisting whaling is a cherished cultural tradition.
日本長期抵制要求其停止科研捕鯨的壓力,堅稱捕鯨是一個優(yōu)良的文化傳統(tǒng)。
A relic from the 19th century, a beached ship anchor lies near the ruins of a whaling station on New Island in the Falkland Islands.
在福克蘭群島的新島上,一個被拖上岸的船錨擱置在捕鯨站的廢墟旁,這些都是來自19世紀的遺跡。
Japan's whaling fleet is sailing towards Antarctica on a mission to hunt and kill over 900 whales, including up to 50 humpbacks .
日本捕鯨船隊正朝南極洲航行;這個捕鯨隊計劃獵殺900多頭鯨魚,其中包括多達50頭座頭鯨。
Now that the two Sea Shepherd members have been released, the controversial whaling expedition will resume.
現(xiàn)在既然已釋放了這兩名海洋守護協(xié)會的成員,他們引發(fā)爭議的捕鯨活動將繼續(xù)進行。