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单词 dolphin
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dolphin
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɒl.fɪn/us
/ˈdɑːl.fɪn/
B1
aseamammalthat islarge,smooth, andgrey, with along,pointedmouth
海豚
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(Definition ofdolphinfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • After studying dolphins, people built submarines to move quickly in the ocean and stay under the water for a long time.
  • Dolphins move quickly in the water not only to be safe from danger.
  • Dolphins use their tails to go faster and their fins to change direction.
  • Whales and dolphins look like fish, but they’re really mammals!
  • While many other animals, such as chimpanzees and dolphins, live in groups and communicate, scientists don’t know for certain whether they can talk and share complicated ideas.
  • He notices that the dolphin's bright colors afford a warning to his enemies, and give them a chance of escape.
  • He tapped out a distress call which the dolphins could relay to the swimmers.
  • I tell you there's a shark swimming in these waters—a shark so big that by comparison Port Royal Tom would seem like a dolphin.
  • The dolphin is called, from the swiftness of its motion, the arrow of the sea.
  • We had too much reason to fear, for scarce was the sun set when we saw about twenty men from a desert island advancing towards us, each on the back of a large dolphin.

dolphin| American Dictionary

dolphin
noun[C]
us
/ˈdɑl·fən,ˈdɔl-/
aseamammalthatlookslike alargefishwith apointedmouth
(Definition ofdolphinfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdolphin

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The latter seems to be a feature of dolphins and other cetaceans (exploited in oceanaria shows, where two performers leap and dive together).
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There was no program for the labeling of shrimp products which are turtle friendly, as is the case withdolphinfriendly tuna.
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Thus, thedolphindeveloped a broad concept of imitation.
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The extremely divergent nature of these features from that of other mammalian brains continues to be the centerpoint of active debate aboutdolphinintelligence.
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It may be premature to restrict the phenomenon of culture to humans, after reflecting on the brain and behavioural evidence for social evolution in dolphins.
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We have suggested several aspects of the natural history of whales and dolphins that may have promoted the evolution of these complex cultures.
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If dolphins are capable of collaborative learning, based on experimental evidence of social cognition, cultural learning may prove not to be a uniquely human phenomenon.
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Research on a broader range of species has been limited by an availability bias favoring the bottlenosedolphin.
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Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenosedolphinwhistle repertoires.
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Finally, there is some confusion among the commentators regarding whether individual learning under different ecological conditions could account for foraging specialisations in bottlenose dolphins.
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It has been a curious phenomenon to trace the popular perception of dolphins over the last few decades.
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The most obvious example is the beach favored by the beaching dolphins.
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This is also true for the "sponging" behavior of dolphins.
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One possibility is suggested by the way in which the dolphins' matching behaviours appear reminiscent of synchronised swimming, where two individuals perform similar acts simultaneously.
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These abilities appear to be reserved for humans, great apes, and possibly, dolphins.
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