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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• So the quick property flippers are gone and the people who are buying now are the serious buyers.
  因此倒腾房产的人走了，现在买房的人是些正儿八经的买房者了。
• The whales then depart, flippers touching, and swim slowly side by side, diving and surfacing in perfect unison until they disappear from sight.
  后来两条鲸又分开了，但是仍鳍挨着鳍，肩并肩慢慢地游着，动作完美而和谐，忽而潜入水中，忽而游出水面，直至它们从视野中渐渐消失。
• Penguins use their wings as flippers.
  企鹅把翅膀当作鳍来使用。
• She splashes in the water with her flippers.
  她用鱼鳍跃入水中。
• Seals, turtles and penguins have flippers.
  海豹、海龟、企鹅均有鳍状肢。
• 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。
• 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。