| 正面 | 4268.whale 英 [weɪl]美 [wel]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1、capt- => catch.2. cat 猫——catch抓住（猫有好抓的习性）vt. 猛揍；使惨败vi. 捕鲸n. 鲸；巨大的东西n. (Whale)人名；(英)惠尔 例句： 1. The blue whale is the largest living thing on the planet.蓝鲸是地球上体型最大的生物。 whale 鲸来自古英语hwael,大型海洋生物，鲸，海象等，后用于指鲸。 whalewhale: [OE] Whale comes from a prehistoric Germanic *khwal-, which also produced Swedish and Danish hval and the wal- of German walfisch ‘whale’. The expression a whale of, meaning ‘no end of’, originated in the USA towards the end of the 19th century.whale (n.)Old English hwæl "whale," also "walrus," from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (cognates: Old Saxon hwal, Old Norse hvalr, hvalfiskr, Swedish val, Middle Dutch wal, walvisc, Dutch walvis, Old High German wal, German Wal), from PIE *(s)kwal-o- (cognates: Latin squalus "a kind of large sea fish"). Phrase whale of a "excellent or large example" is c. 1900, student slang. Whale-oil attested from mid-15c.whale (v.2)"beat, whip severely," 1790, possibly a variant of wale (v.) "to mark with 'wales' or stripes" (early 15c.), from wale (n.). Related: Whaled; whaling.whale (v.1)"pursue the business of whale-fishing," 1700, from whale (n.). Whale-fishing is attested from 1570s." |