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
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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

• Then the dolphins perform a private show, showing off there amazing jumps and waving their flippers.
  接着海豚进行了惊人的跳跃，挥舞脚蹼等表演。
• So now he's got two busted flippers, so I said to him.
  现在他弄了两只假手，因此我对他说。
• 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；
• 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。
• Large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives.
  有长的鳍状肢的大型须鲸，以其潜水时背部为拱形或有肉锋而闻名。
• Penguins use their wings as flippers.
  企鹅把翅膀当作鳍来使用。
• 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。
• Pliosaurs are thought to have been ambush predators, using their giant flippers to launch ferocious attacks.
  上龙被认为是一种埋伏型猎食者，使用它们巨大的鳍状肢发动凶猛的进攻。
• 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。
• Do you rent masks and flippers?
  你出租面罩和蛙鞋吗？