• n. 海豚；鼠海豚

來自古法語porpais,豬魚，海豚，來自porc,豬，詞源同pork,peis,魚，詞源同fish.因海豚圓鼓鼓的肚子形如豬肚而得名。

porpoise

porpoise: [14] The porpoise is etymologically the ‘pig-fish’. The word comes via Old French porpois from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis, a compound formed from porcus ‘pig’ (source of English pork) and piscis ‘fish’ (a relative of English fish) and based on the model of Latin porcus marīnus ‘sea-pig’. The name may have been suggested by the porpoise’s snout.
=> fish, pork

porpoise (n.)

early 14c., porpas, from Old French porpais (12c.) "porpoise," literally "pork fish," from porc "pork" (see pork (n.)) + peis "fish," from Latin piscis "fish" (see fish (n.)).

The Old French word probably is a loan-translation of a Germanic word meaning literally "sea-hog, mere-swine," such as Old Norse mar-svin, Old High German meri-swin, Middle Dutch mereswijn "porpoise" (the last of which also was borrowed directly into French and became Modern French marsouin).

Classical Latin had a similar name, porculus marinus (in Pliny), and the notion behind the name likely is a fancied resemblance of the snout to that of a pig.

1. What is the difference between a dolphin and porpoise ?

海豚和和鼠海豚有什么區別？

來自辭典例句

2. Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a snort / And vibrant tail, within the temple - gate.

那兩腮呼呼作響、尾巴掀起了/怒浪的龐大的海族--在廟宇的門墻內.

來自英漢 - 翻譯樣例 - 文學

3. I think __ Porpoise is very interesting in the zoo.

我覺得在動物園里海豚是很有趣的.

來自互聯網

4. The Finless Porpoise is another resident marine mammal species.

此外,江豚是另一種在本港海域棲居的海洋哺乳類動物.

來自互聯網

5. The poor pauper paused on purpose to pawn a porpoise.

貧窮的乞丐有意停下來典當一只海豚.

來自互聯網