whale是什么意思（whale的用法）

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一、whale是什么意思

1、whale 鲸

2、来自古英语hwael,大型海洋生物，鲸，海象等，后用于指鲸。

二、whale的用法

1、whale

2、whale: [OE] Whale comes from a prehistoric Germanic *khwal-, which also produced Swedish and Danish hval and the wal- of German walfisch ‘whale’. The expression a whale of, meaning ‘no end of’, originated in the USA towards the end of the 19th century.

3、whale (n.)

4、Old English hwæl "whale," also "walrus," from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (cognates: Old Saxon hwal, Old Norse hvalr, hvalfiskr, Swedish val, Middle Dutch wal, walvisc, Dutch walvis, Old High German wal, German Wal), from PIE *(s)kwal-o- (cognates: Latin squalus "a kind of large sea fish"). Phrase whale of a "excellent or large example" is c. 1900, student slang. Whale-oil attested from mid-15c.

5、whale (v.2)

6、"beat, whip severely," 1790, possibly a variant of wale (v.) "to mark with 'wales' or stripes" (early 15c.), from wale (n.). Related: Whaled; whaling.

7、whale (v.1)

8、"pursue the business of whale-fishing," 1700, from whale (n.). Whale-fishing is attested from 1570s.

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