(whalebone 的复数) n. 鲸须, 鲸须制品
plural of whalebone
n. a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets

At lunch the guests at the Black Dog Inn could talk of nothing but the museum robbery. If you ask me, one guest said, the police should question Miss Coffin first. After all, she lives at the Sailors Museum. Humph! another guest said. What about inve

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 39 The Ghost Ship Mystery

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. You may not realize it, but your bones are living tissue. And that tissue is always breaking down and re-growing. When the growth of new bone tissue does not keep up with the loss of old

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The biggest and strongest animal on land is the elephant. The largest and heaviest animal in the sea is the whale. It's also the biggest eater in the world. It eats a ton of food a day. It looks like

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Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Oh, hear the word of the Lord The foot bone's connected to the ankle bone The ankle bone's connected to

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今天我们要给大家介绍的习惯用语是:To feel it in one's bones。To feel就是感觉, bones是骨头。To feel it in one's bones这个习惯用语的意思就是:有一种直觉,预感某件事一定会发生。 我的一个朋友总

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

今天我们要给大家介绍的一个习惯用语是:to make no bones。Bones就是骨头。To make no bones就是毫不掩饰,直率地表示自己的意见。要是一个女孩和一个长期失业,没有收入的人相爱,而且还准备结

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今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:make no bones about. Bone是骨头的意思。Make no bones about就是不管是否会得罪别人,或是让别人感到尴尬,都直言不讳的意思。不过要记住,这里用的是复数bones. 我

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It really is rocket scienceresearchers are using huge x-ray scanners from NASA to understand how sonar might be affecting the hearing of large ocean mammals. These scanners are usually used to inspect the space shuttles solid fuel rockets. Navy sonar

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As investigators studied the large serrated teeth of the giant shark, they discovered the massive power of its bite - a force of 20 tons. 在调查者研究这些巨鲨的大型锯齿状牙齿时,他们发现了它巨大的咬合力可达二十吨。

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Our oceans are alive with sound. Sound that most of us never hear. But there is one man who is definitely listening. The blue whales in the eastern North Pacific off the California coast make two primary types of calls. You know one is this very puls

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Then as we got closer, I could see what it was. It was a California gray whale cow. The California gray whale is one of the largest animals on the planet. A fully-grown female known as a cow can easily weigh up to 35 tons, the equivalent of eleven fe

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EXPLORATIONS - November 27, 2002: Keiko the Whale By Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we te

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Whale Sightings Break Record in Southern California LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA Tourists are flocking to the southern California coast for whale-watching tours. In the last month, a record number of the huge marine mammals have been seen off the coast of

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Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Oh, hear the word of the Lord The foot bones connected to the ankle bone The ankle bones connected to the leg bone The leg bones connected to the knee bon

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Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk around Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk around Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk around Oh, hear the word of the Lord The head bones connected to the neck bone The neck bones connected to the shoulder bone The shoulder bo

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6 鲸鱼的眼睛 划艇剧烈地左右摇晃着。浪很大,溅起咸咸的海水,刺痛了杰克的眼睛。他有些晕船。 抓牢了!骷髅船长大声说。他指了指大海,说:不然我们就成了这些畜牲的盘中餐了。 只见

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NASA Scanner Offers Clues To Whale Hearing Researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University have imaged whale skulls in an attempt to determine the effects of sonar on whale hearing. Cynthia Graber reports It really is rocket scienceresearc

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No bones about it. 意思是:真实的,诚恳的(truly, sincerely or exactly),也就是 to make no bones about it.(bone 要加 s, it 是指 something)例如: His wife is beautiful;no bones about it.(他的太太真是很漂亮)Mr.

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Chapter 103 Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton 第一百零三章 鲸骷髅的尺寸 In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we are briefly to exhibit. 首先

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The Pequod had now swept so nigh to the stranger, that Stubb vowed he recognized his cutting spade-pole entangled in the lines that were knotted round the tail of one of these whales. 裴廓德号现在已跟这艘陌生船靠得很拢,所以斯塔布

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botryosphaeria yedoensis
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