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If, on the other hand, we do know every living species. 这说法还是比较今人情服的。 We must look for the animal in question among those marine creatures already cataloged, and in this event I would be inclined to accept the existence of a

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But in the meantime I would have to look for this narwhale in the northern Pacific Ocean; which meant returning to France by way of the Antipodes. 不过，目前我必须到太平洋的北部去找这个海麒麟。这和我要回法国去，却是背

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Even less likely, Ned. The devilfish is merely a mollusk, and even this name hints at its semiliquid flesh, because it's Latin meaning soft one. 尼德兰，那更不对了。章鱼是软体动物，单是这个名字就已经表明它的肌肉一点也

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It is chiefly with his name that I now have to do. 我现在所要做的,主要是解释它的名字。 Philologically considered, it is absurd. 从哲理上看来,这是荒唐可笑的。 Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was almost wholly un

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Under this head I reckon a monster which, by the various names of Fin-Back, Tall-Spout, and Long-John, 在这个项目下,我不禁想起一种有着许多名称的巨兽来:脊鳍鲸,高喷鲸,长约翰鲸, has been seen almost in every sea and is c

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He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. 它似乎是个仇恨鲸者,犹如有些人是仇恨人类者一样。 Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; 它很怕羞,始终独

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BOOK I. (Folio) CHAPTER IV. (Hump Back).--This whale is often seen on the northern American coast. 第一篇(对开型) 第四章(座头鲸)...这种鲸常见于北美洲沿海一带。它经常在那边被捉到后,拖进了港埠。 He has been fre

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How then? The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars. 那