英语单词

flipper是什么意思

flipper

英 ['flɪpə] 美 ['flɪpɚ]
  • n. 鳍状肢;鳍;烤饼;胖听罐头
  • vi. 靠鳍足(或鸭甲板)行动
  • adj. 无礼的

中文词源


flipper 鳍足

来自flip, 翻转,翻动。用来指海洋动物的鳍足或潜水员使用的脚蹼。

英文词源


flipper (n.)
limb used to swim with, 1822, agent noun from flip (v.). Sense of "rubber fin for underwater swimming" is from 1945. Slang meaning "the hand" dates from 1836. Related: Flippers.

双语例句


1. The seal's flipper is homologous with the human arm.
海豹的鳍肢与人类的手臂同源。

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2. It's almost like a flipper action as she kicks down.
她向下踢腿时有鱼鳍的效果.

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3. Flipper? Maybe those frisky crowd - pleasers at the aquarium?
鳍状肢? 或许是水族馆中那些活泼逗人的生物?

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4. The bumps on a whale's flipper help form vortices that generate more lift, more smoothly.
鱼鳍上突起的部分有助于形成涡旋,也就更增大上升力 、 减小阻力.

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5. But look at how I get the flipper effects with my feet and my ankle flexibility.
但是我如何用脚和灵活的踝关节制造出脚蹼效果的.

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