porpoise

英 ['pɔːpəs; 'pɒpɒɪs] 美 ['pɔrpəs]

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※ 提供单词"porpoise"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

porpoise 海豚，鼠海豚

来自古法语porpais,猪鱼，海豚，来自porc,猪，词源同pork,peis,鱼，词源同fish.因海豚圆鼓鼓的肚子形如猪肚而得名。

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.

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2. Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a snort / And vibrant tail, within the temple - gate.: 那两腮呼呼作响、尾巴掀起了/怒浪的庞大的海族--在庙宇的门墙内.

4. The Finless Porpoise is another resident marine mammal species.: 此外,江豚是另一种在本港海域栖居的海洋哺乳类动物.