The whale dived as the harpoon struck it.
鲸被鱼叉射中后下潜。
Scientists are puzzled as to why the whale had swum to the shore.
科学家们感到不解：为什么这头鲸游到海岸上来。
Divers battled for hours to try to free a whale entangled in crab nets.
潜水员们奋战了几个小时，试图解救一条被捕蟹网缠住的鲸鱼。
The whale, like the dolphin, has become a symbol of the marvels of creation.
鲸，和海豚一样，已经成为造物杰作的象征。
The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
幼鲸长出一层厚脂肪以抵御冰冷的海水。
也许他只会说鲸语。
鲸鱼是哺乳动物。
Another is Rosemary Gales, a leading expert on whale strandings.
另一位是罗斯玛丽·盖尔斯，鲸鱼搁浅方面的权威专家。
How was the gap between a walking mammal and a swimming whale bridged?
会走路的哺乳动物和会游泳的鲸鱼之间的差异是如何衔接起来的？
They pushed and tried to force the whale back into the water, but it was no use.
他们推着，试图迫使鲸鱼回到水里，但没有用。
When a whale dives, its metabolic rate drops, causing its heartbeat to slow down.
当鲸鱼潜水时，它的新陈代谢率下降，导致心跳减慢。
When the last stranded whale of a group eventually dies, the story does not end there.
最后一条搁浅的鲸鱼死亡之后，故事也远未结束。
It is these that absorb whale "clicks": Rough weather generates more bubbles than usual.
恶劣天气中产生的气泡比平时更多，正是这些气泡吸收了鲸鱼发出的“滴答声“。
He just never expected to get a chance to save a real whale, one right in his own neighbourhood.
他只是从来没有想过会有机会拯救一条真正的鲸鱼，就在他自己的社区里。
This means the rate of reduction of the whale population cannot be countered by such a rise in births.
这意味着鲸鱼出生率的上升无法抵消鲸鱼数量的减少。
Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly nonfunctional, or vestigial, hind legs.
龙王鲸无疑是一种完全海生的鲸鱼，它的后腿可能没有功能，或退化了。
For whale species that depend on an echolocation system to navigate, this kind of beach spells disaster.
对于依赖回声定位系统导航的鲸鱼物种来说，这种海滩意味着灾难。
These just fade out on shallow beaches, so the whale doesn't hear an echo and it crashes onto the shore.
这些声音在浅滩上逐渐消失，所以鲸鱼没有听到回声，就撞到了岸边。
Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews argued at the time that the whale must be a throwback to a land-living ancestor.
探险家罗伊·查普曼·安德鲁斯当时认为，鲸鱼一定是一种返祖的陆地生物。
Neglect, dilapidation, storm and fire have gradually reduced it to a rusting hulk, like the rib-cage of a whale.
失修、荒废、风暴和火灾使它逐渐沦为生锈的废船，就像鲸鱼的胸腔。
When it comes to physiology, the leatherback turtle is, in some ways, more like a reptilian whale than a turtle.
就生理机能而言，棱皮龟从某种程度上来说更像一只爬虫类的鲸，而非海龟。
In the ocean where food is easier to find, a blue whale, for instance, can eat up to 8,000 pounds of food a day.
例如，在更容易找到食物的海洋中，一只蓝鲸一天可以吃多达8000磅的食物。
Their number of teeth is mixed; a bottlenose has 88 teeth, a false killer whale has 44 teeth, and a wholphin has 66.
它们牙齿的数目都是混合的；宽吻海豚有88颗牙齿，伪虎鲸有44颗牙齿，全齿鲸有66颗。
The shaft of the ceremonial mace is the whorled tusk of a narwhal, a small Arctic whale. The door handles are of walrus tusk.
仪式权杖柄是用一种小型的北极独角鲸的牙齿制成的。门柄是用海象的牙齿制成的。
When 80% of all Australian whale strandings occur around Tasmania, Gales and her team must continue in the search for answers.
当澳大利亚80%的鲸鱼搁浅发生在塔斯马尼亚岛附近时，盖尔斯和她的团队必须继续寻找答案。
The receding tide stranded the whale.
退潮把鲸鱼搁浅在海滩上。
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