porpoise

英 ['p??p?s; 'p?p??s] 美['p?rp?s]

IELTS暢通詞匯哺乳動物

復數:?porpoises;

porpoise 海豚，鼠海豚

來自古法語porpais,豬魚，海豚，來自porc,豬，詞源同pork,peis,魚，詞源同fish.因海豚圓鼓鼓的肚子形如豬肚而得名。

porpoise: porpoise: [14] The porpoise is etymologically the ‘pig-fish’. The word comes via Old French porpois from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis, a compound formed from porcus ‘pig’ (source of English pork) and piscis ‘fish’ (a relative of English fish) and based on the model of Latin porcus marīnus ‘sea-pig’. The name may have been suggested by the porpoise’s snout.
=> fish, pork
porpoise (n.): early 14c., porpas, from Old French porpais (12c.) "porpoise," literally "pork fish," from porc "pork" (see pork (n.)) + peis "fish," from Latin piscis "fish" (see fish (n.)).

The Old French word probably is a loan-translation of a Germanic word meaning literally "sea-hog, mere-swine," such as Old Norse mar-svin, Old High German meri-swin, Middle Dutch mereswijn "porpoise" (the last of which also was borrowed directly into French and became Modern French marsouin).

Classical Latin had a similar name, porculus marinus (in Pliny), and the notion behind the name likely is a fancied resemblance of the snout to that of a pig.

2. Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a snort / And vibrant tail, within the temple - gate.: 那兩腮呼呼作響、尾巴掀起了/怒浪的龐大的海族--在廟宇的門墻內.

4. The Finless Porpoise is another resident marine mammal species.: 此外,江豚是另一種在本港海域棲居的海洋哺乳類動物.