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

• 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。
• Any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers.
  几种没有外耳的海豹，有坚硬的发状皮毛，后肢退化为用于游泳的鳍状肢。
• 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。
• 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；
• Do you rent masks and flippers?
  你出租面罩和蛙鞋吗？
• Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern esp. Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers.
  寒冷的南部特别是南极地区的短腿并不能飞翔的鸟，蹼足、鳍状翼。
• Of or belonging to the Pinnipedia, a suborder of carnivorous aquatic mammals that includes the seals, walruses, and similar animals having finlike flippers as organs of locomotion.
  有鳍状肢的属于鳍脚亚目动物的，肉食水生动物的一个分支，包括海狮、海象及其他类似的用鳍状肢行进的动物。
• 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。
• Penguins use their wings as flippers.
  企鹅把翅膀当作鳍来使用。