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This is Whats Trending Today... Three million years may seem like a long time. But when you consider that planet Earth is more than 4.5 billion years old, it is a pretty short period of time. And it is over that shorter time period that the whales in

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The biggest and strongest animal on land is the elephant. The largest and heaviest animal in the sea is the whale. It's also the biggest eater in the world. It eats a ton of food a day. It looks like

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I think I never drink as much tea as I did in Egypt. 我感觉我从来没喝过这么多的茶 And to be honest with you, we could have finished earlier, 老实说，我们其实可以提前竣工 but I think it took us three weeks because of all th

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Then as we got closer, I could see what it was. It was a California gray whale cow. The California gray whale is one of the largest animals on the planet. A fully-grown female known as a cow can easily weigh up to 35 tons, the equivalent of eleven fe

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I also saw myriads of those northernmost sea butterflies three centimeters long, which a baleen whale can swallow by the thousands in one gulp. 我又看到有无数北方的触须贝，长三厘米；鲸鱼每一口就吞食它们一大群。 The op

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Why, Ned! I replied. You still aren't over your old fishing urges? 怎么。我回答，尼德，您还没有打消您哪打鲸鱼的老念头吗？ How could a whale fisherman forget his old trade, sir? 先生，打鲸鱼的人能够忘记他从前的

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Like Makoko and the Torre David, 像马卡卡和托雷大卫一样， throughout the Zabbaleen you'll find all the same facilities as in any typical neighborhood. 通过扎巴林你可以发现在任何典型的社区里都完全一样的设施。 Th

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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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In an instant the frigate's deck would become densely populated. 战舰的甲板上马上就挤满了人，水手和军官像水流一般地从布棚下涌出来了。 The cowls over the companionways would vomit a torrent of sailors and officers.Wit

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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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So the Abraham Lincoln wasn't lacking in means of destruction. But it had better still. It had Ned Land, the King of Harpooners. 因此，林肯号的歼灭性武器，可以说样样俱全，最妙的是船上还有鱼叉手之王尼德兰。 Gifted

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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