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对鲸的屠宰是不必要且不人道的。
The slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.
北冰洋的鲸类仍然遭到猎杀。
Whales are still being hunted and killed in the Arctic.
幼鲸长出一层厚脂肪以抵御冰冷的海水。
The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
一头鲸被发现冲到了岸上。
A whale was found washed up on the shore.
鲸用二十四小时来交配。
Whales take twenty-four hours to copulate.
鲸被鱼叉射中后下潜。
The whale dived as the harpoon struck it.
鲸,和海豚一样,已经成为造物杰作的象征。
The whale, like the dolphin, has become a symbol of the marvels of creation.
科学家们感到不解:为什么这头鲸游到海岸上来。
Scientists are puzzled as to why the whale had swum to the shore.
猎杀结束后,男人们和年长的妇女们聚在一个空地吃了一顿鲸肉宴。
After the kill the men and old women collect in an open space and eat a meal of whale meat.
《鲸之歌》讲述了怎样的故事?
What's Whale Song about?
鲸不是鱼类,而是哺乳类植物。
Whales are not fish, but mammals.
鲸是生活在海洋中的哺乳动物。
Whales are mammals that live in the sea.
人类从座头鲸身上借用了音乐灵感。
Human beings borrow ideas in music from humpback whales.
我们可以在公园里看到鲸吗?
Can we see whales at the park?
不要盖住搁浅的鲸的喷水孔!
Do not cover the stranded whale's blowhole!
有次旅行,我们去了圣劳伦斯河赏鲸。
On one trip, we went whale watching on the St. Lawrence River.
鲸是一种哺乳动物。
A whale is a kind of mammal.
也许他只会说鲸语。
Maybe he only speaks whale.
鲸每天都要睡觉。
Whale needs to sleep everyday.
我的名字叫鲸。
My name is whale.
磷虾数量的减少和气温的升高可能迫使南极鲸迁徙。
Shrinking krill population and rising temperatures could force Antarctic whales to migrate.
即使是座头鲸也喜欢用它们的右颚从海底刮沙鳗鱼。
Even humpback whales prefer to use the right side of their jaws to scrape sand eels from the ocean floor.
鲸作为社会性动物,可能需要大规模聚集的刺激来诱导繁殖行为。
Whales being sociable animals probably need the stimulus of sizeable gatherings to induce reproductives behavior.
这种鲸保留了尾巴,没有现代水生鲸类动物用于行动的主要部位,尾片。
The whale retained a tail and lacked a fluke, the major means of locomotion in modern cetaceans.
直到大约1000万年后,鲸类才进化出专门的肾脏,使它们能够饮用盐水。
Not until about ten million years later did species of whales develop specialized kidneys enabling them to drink salt water.
观鲸业已成为一个快速发展的休闲产业。
Whale-watching has become a growth leisure industry.
它们耐心地在水面下照顾幼鲸,等待哺乳期的母鲸回来。
They patiently take care of the young whales just under the surface of the water, waiting for the feeding mothers to return.
中国南海的鲸落深度约为三米。
The whale fall in the South China Sea is about three meters long.
世界上已知的鲸落不到50个。
There are less than 50 known whale falls in the world.
一些鱼类已经开始吞食鲸的尾巴。
Some fish have started to eat the whale's tail.