flippers

英 [ˈflɪpəz]

美 [ˈflɪpərz]

n.  (海豹、海龟等的)鳍肢，鳍足; (潜水、游泳用的)脚蹼，蛙鞋，鸭脚板，橡皮脚掌
flipper的复数

柯林斯词典

• 脚蹼;橡皮脚掌;鸭脚板
  Flippersare flat pieces of rubber that you can wear on your feet to help you swim more quickly, especially underwater.
• (海豹等的)鳍状肢，鳍足
  Theflippersof an animal that lives in water, for example a seal or a penguin, are the two or four flat limbs which it uses for swimming.

双语例句

• The marine reptile hunted the oceans with a long thin neck and tail, four large flippers and razor-sharp teeth.
  这种海洋两栖动物长有细细的长脖颈和细长尾巴，四个巨大的阔鳍，像剃刀一样锋利的牙齿，以捕食其他海洋动物为生。
• Their forelegs had turned into the flippers that today's whales use for steering;
  它们的前腿变成鳍状肢，今天的鲸鱼便是用它来掌握方向的；
• Aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers.
  水生食肉型哺乳动物，流线型身体适于游泳，鳍状肢。
• But neo-Marxist visions of burger flippers on the barricades seem a touch too paranoid.
  但新马克思主义者梦想的社会底层劳动者都走上街头抗议的情景，则显得过于妄想。
• It burst in 2000, but was soon replaced with another bubble, involving smart "flippers" of properties.
  它于2000年破灭，但很快就被另一场泡沫接替，涉及聪明的“倒腾房地产的人”。
• They are beautiful to watch as their large flippers move them gracefully through the blue waters.
  它们优雅地划动着鳍状肢，游弋在蓝色的大海里，看起来很漂亮。
• This sea lion is one of the regulars at a fishery as she stands on her flippers patiently queuing up for her fish supper.
  这头海狮是这个鱼贩的常客之一，它用鳍支撑着身体耐心地排着队等待它的金枪鱼晚餐。
• Simply because those who would save the planet have feet and not flippers, and breathe air rather than water, they've called themselves greens rather than blues.
  这仅仅是因为那些拯救地球的人长有脚而不是鳍状肢，他们呼吸空气而不是水，他们自称为绿色主义者而不是蓝色主义者。
• The body of the whale is like that of a fish but remnants offorelimbs can be seen in the creature's front flippers.
  鲸鱼的身体跟鱼很像，但是可以在他们的前面的鳍状肢看到前肢的残迹。
• She splashes in the water with her flippers.
  她用鱼鳍跃入水中。