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

• Penguins use their wings as flippers.
  企鹅把翅膀当作鳍来使用。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers.
  水生食肉型哺乳动物，流线型身体适于游泳，鳍状肢。
• It burst in 2000, but was soon replaced with another bubble, involving smart "flippers" of properties.
  它于2000年破灭，但很快就被另一场泡沫接替，涉及聪明的“倒腾房地产的人”。
• Insulation protects the leatherback everywhere but on its head and flippers.
  隔热层为棱皮龟的全身上下都提供了保护，除了头部和鳍状肢。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。