Dolphin的意思|Dolphin的解释-里氏词典

dolphin ['dɒlfin]

n. 海豚

We like to see the performance of dolphins.
我们喜欢看海豚的表演。
The dolphin balanced the ball on its nose.
海豚用鼻子顶着球，使其保持平衡。
The head of the dolphin popped up quite near the boat.
那海豚的头在离船很近的地方冒出来。

dolphin

[ noun ]

large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)

<noun.animal>

any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

<noun.animal>

dolphin \dol"phin\ (d[o^]l"f[i^]n), n. [F. dauphin dolphin,
dauphin, earlier spelt also doffin; cf. OF. dalphinal of the
dauphin; fr. L. delphinus, Gr. delfi`s a dolphin (in senses
1, 2, 3, & 6), perh. properly, belly fish; cf. delfy`s womb,
Skr. garbha; perh. akin to E. calf. Cf. {Dauphin},
{Delphine}.]
1. (Zool.) A cetacean of the genus {Delphinus} and allied
genera (esp. {Delphinus delphis}); the true dolphin.

Note: The dolphin of the ancients ({Delphinus delphis}) is
common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, and attains a
length of from six to eight feet.

2. (Zool.) The {Coryph[ae]na hippuris}, a fish of about five
feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of
color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the
dolphin. The term is also applied to the related
{Coryphaena equisetis}. Called also {dolphinfish} and
(especially in Hawaii) {mahimahi}. See also {dolphinfish}
and {Coryph[ae]noid}.

Syn: dolphinfish, mahimahi.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

3. [Gr. delfi`s] (Gr. Antiq.) A mass of iron or lead hung
from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck
of an enemy's vessel.

4. (Naut.)
(a) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
(b) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a
ring to which ships may fasten their cables. --R. H.
Dana.
(c) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
(d) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the
gunwale. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

5. (Gun.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the
trunnions by which a cannon was lifted.

6. (Astron.) A small constellation between Aquila and
Pegasus. See {Delphinus}, n., 2.

{Dolphin fly} (Zo["o]l.), the black, bean, or collier, Aphis
({Aphis fable}), destructive to beans.

{Dolphin striker} (Naut.), a short vertical spar under the
bowsprit.

A federal Marine Mammal Commission probe found no major problems with the center's program or dolphin deaths in the past 13 months. That probe was initiated because of reports in 1988 that 13 dolphins in the Navy had died between 1986 and 1988.
Increased sightings of dolphin calves in the past three months is encouraging, but recovery from two years of poisoning that killed hundreds of dolphins will be a slow process, researchers say.
And University of San Francisco dolphin researcher Diana Reiss says that even if the wild dolphins should perform on cue, it could be because of coincidence and not language.
They are trying to determine why only striped dolphin, and not fish, have been killed, he said.
Meanwhile, a scientist in Miami said the number of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico this winter is running about three times normal.
A 90-day federal moratorium on captures was scheduled to last through mid-June but may be extended if the dolphin deaths continue.
"I've seen quite a few dolphin demonstrations but this was one of the best I've seen," says David Jenkins, deputy director of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums.
Robert Schoelkopf, who is heading the operation, said rescuers were thwarted by strong currents and a frisky dolphin. "He's not weak at all.
Another dolphin expert, Dr. Zhou Kaiya of the Nanjing Normal University, has separately started building a large holding pond for dolphins in the channel between two Yangtze islands futher downstream in Anhui province.
The dolphin was spotted on the river banks near the Metropolitan police building Tuesday afternoon, and police and fire service workers rushed to its rescue.
In many ways, Knott's is the smorgasbord of theme parks, with indoor rides like at Disneyland, fast rides for thrill-seekers, a dolphin show to compete with marine parks and a playland for kids.
One reason is an unexplained Dolphin illness in the Gulf of Mexico, a prime frolicking ground for the intelligent mammals, which has forced a ban on dolphin captures there.
An attempted rescue of a dolphin in Delaware a few years ago failed when the animal died of a heart attack, he said.
A young dolphin that became stranded on the shore of the Thames River died five hours after an elaborate rescue operation, a veterinarian said Wednesday.
There is a resident group of pilot whales around the Canaries together with various dolphin species.
Most of the tuna canned here comes from the eastern Pacific Ocean, where dolphin and tuna swim together.
Last month, TBS set up a toll-free "dolphin hot line" through Western Union for viewers of "If Dolphins Could Talk," about the mammals' plight with tuna fishermen and pollution narrated by Michael Douglas.
Although the dolphin seemed robust, Schoelkopf said he is concerned it will weaken as the water temperature dips below 42 degrees.
StarKist said 90% of the 250,000 tons of tuna it buys each year is already "dolphin safe," but now it will only buy tuna from boats in which government observers have certified no dolphins were killed.
A preliminary look at the dead dolphin shows it had "severe and significant skin lesions and skin sloughing because of the fresh water," said Dr. Samuel Sadove of the Okeanos Ocean Research Foundation.
In Boston, meanwhile, protests from animal-rights activists have led an aquarium director to rethink plans to trade an aggressive, unsociable show dolphin to the Navy.
Two weeks ago, the dolphin headed north up the Hudson, forcing scientists to scuttle plans to scare it toward the ocean by playing recorded killer-whale sounds underwater.
The team is trying to collect sperm from its 9-year-old male dolphin to artificially inseminate a 4-year-old female Liu said is still two or three years from sexual maturity.
The dolphin was first noticed on June 20 in the East River off Manhattan.
The newspaper said one dolphin died last month near Port Townsend and two others died earlier in San Diego, where the program is based.
A naturally occurring toxin is the focus of research into an epidemic of dolphin deaths along the East Coast, the lead investigator said Saturday.
Dolphin activists have demanded cancellation of the Navy tests because of dolphin sightings in the area.
The 8-foot-long male dolphin was found Monday on a Delaware Bay beach in North Cape May, at the southern tip of New Jersey, said Sheila Dean, co-director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine.
He said the striped dolphin is not an endangered species and is abundant in the Mediterranean.
Residents have been lobbying for the rescue since the dolphin was first noticed in the bay in early October.

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