中文词源
minke 小须鲸
词源不详，通常认为是来自人名Meincke,20世纪初的一个挪威捕鲸渔夫，把这种鲸错认成蓝鲸，被同行讥笑而起了这么一个绰号用来代指这种小须鲸。
minke 小须鲸词源不详，通常认为是来自人名Meincke,20世纪初的一个挪威捕鲸渔夫，把这种鲸错认成蓝鲸，被同行讥笑而起了这么一个绰号用来代指这种小须鲸。
英语词源
- minke (n.)
- type of small whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), 1939, supposedly from the Norwegian surname Meincke.
The name minke is said to have derived from one of Svend Foyn's crew by the name of Meincke, who mistook a school of these whales for blue whales. Whalers all over the world considered this incident so amusing that they used his name as a household word to describe this species. [J.N. Tønnessen & A.O. Johnsen, "The History of Modern Whaling" (transl. R.I. Christophersen), 1982]
Also known in English as the lesser rorqual and little piked whale.
权威例句
- 1. Norwegian whalers said yesterday they had harpooned a female minke whale.
- 挪威的捕鲸人说昨天他们用捕鲸叉捕获了一头雌性小须鲸。
- 2. Greenpeace says Japan plans to take 935 minke whales this season.
- 绿色和平组织声称本季日本计画猎捕935只小须鲸.
- 3. A minke whale swims near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
- 一头小须鲸正在澳大利亚大堡礁附近游弋.
- 4. Blue Whale is the biggest in Minke whales.
- 蓝鲸是须鲸中最大的一种.
- 5. Japan also plans to kill 935 minke whales for what it calls scientific research.
- 日本以进行科学研究为名,打算再捕杀935头小须鲸鱼.