whaling

英 [ˈweɪlɪŋ]

美 [ˈweɪlɪŋ]

n.  捕鲸(业)

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IELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.13325 / COCA.15560

牛津词典

noun

• 捕鲸（业）
  the activity or business of hunting and killing whales

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 捕鲸
  Whalingis the activity of hunting and killing whales.
  1. ...a ban on commercial whaling.
     禁止商业性捕鲸的禁令
  2. ...the whaling industry.
     捕鲸业

双语例句

• Norway is the only other major whale-hunting nation in the International Whaling Commission.
  挪威是国际捕鲸委员会中的另外一个主要的鲸捕杀国家。
• The Japanese whaling fleet is warning environmentalists to stay away from its Southern Ocean hunt this year.
  日本捕鲸船队警告环境保护者们远离他们今年在南部海洋的捕鲸行动。
• The IWC voted to uphold the ban on commercial whaling.
  国际捕鲸委员会投票支持禁止商业捕鲸。
• The environmental group Greenpeace has claimed to have driven Japan's controversial whaling fleet out of Antarctic hunting grounds after a dramatic chase through thick fog and rough seas.
  国际环保组织“绿色和平”表示，经过一场在浓雾和巨浪中的追逐，该组织的活动人士已经成功地将日本派出的有争议的捕鲸船队赶出了南极洲的捕猎地点。
• Two anti-whaling protesters who boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean have been released.
  两名登上日本在南冰洋上的捕鲸船、反对捕鲸的抗议者被释放。
• New Zealand has condemned Japan's decision to resume whaling in Antarctic waters later this year.
  新西兰政府谴责日本今年将继续在南极海域捕鲸的计划。
• Melville incorporated in "Moby Dick" an exhaustive encyclopaedia of whaling lore.
  梅尔维尔在《白鲸》中汇集了各种捕鲸知识。
• Men went whaling to get the valuable oil, meat, and bones of whale.
  人们捕鲸是为了获得宝贵的鲸油、鲸肉和鲸骨。
• Protocol to the International Convention for the regulation of whaling;
  国际捕鲸管制公约议定书；
• They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling
  他们见利忘义地试图以减少屠杀海豚数量作为交换条件，重启商业捕鲸。