whaling

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n.  捕鲸(业)

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IELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.13325 / COCA.15560

牛津词典

noun

• 捕鲸（业）
  the activity or business of hunting and killing whales

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 捕鲸
  Whalingis the activity of hunting and killing whales.
  1. ...a ban on commercial whaling.
     禁止商业性捕鲸的禁令
  2. ...the whaling industry.
     捕鲸业

双语例句

• The organization says bad weather is keeping protesters from continuing their actions to disrupt the whaling near Antarctica.
  这个组织说，恶劣的天气使抗议人士无法持续阻挠他们在南极附近捕鲸。
• The IWC voted to uphold the ban on commercial whaling.
  国际捕鲸委员会投票支持禁止商业捕鲸。
• Australia's anti-whaling film clip accuses Japan of using its scientific whaling program as a cover for commercial hunting.
  澳大利亚反捕鲸电影剪辑指控日本打着科学研究的幌子进行商业捕鲸。
• Norway is the only other major whale-hunting nation in the International Whaling Commission.
  挪威是国际捕鲸委员会中的另外一个主要的鲸捕杀国家。
• Two anti-whaling protesters who boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean have been released.
  两名登上日本在南冰洋上的捕鲸船、反对捕鲸的抗议者被释放。
• And went off on a whaling ship as an ordinary seaman.
  去当了一个普通水手，然后跟着一艘捕鲸船消失了。
• Protocol to the International Convention for the regulation of whaling;
  国际捕鲸管制公约议定书；
• Critics say it is commercial whaling in all but name.
  批评人士说，捕鲸完全是商业目的，只是用了不同名目罢了。
• Japan considers whaling to be a cultural tradition which it says it only undertakes for scientific research.
  而日本则认为，捕鲸是他们的一个文化传统，并称被捕捞的鲸鱼仅用于科学研究。
• Japan has rejected demands from overseas that it abandon whaling as hypocritical.
  日本拒绝了国际社会要求其放弃捕鲸的要求，称之为伪善之举。