| 单词 | cachalot |
| 例句 | The sperm whale, the cachalot, trusts to his jaw; he bites; and his enemy is not the men in the boat, but the boat itself. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z The male cachalot has a larger head than that of the female, and it no doubt aids these animals in their aquatic battles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Squid, otherwise cuttle-fish, is a horrid monster, all arms and beak, which the cachalot considers a most dainty tidbit. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Half pulling, half trusting to the sail, in a few seconds they were alongside the carcass of the cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea M. Pomel, whom I cited above, believed it to come from the brain of the whale called "cachalot." More Science From an Easy Chair Bits of the bones of the gigantic squid on which the cachalot feeds. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z On its blue expanse he beholds but a streak of white, the frothing water in the vessel’s wake, now and then a “school” of tumbling porpoises, or the “spout” of a cachalot whale. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea This morning we raised fish, a big school of cachalot, about three mile to leeward. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story It was the thought of this that came into the mind of the ex-whalesman; and rendered him apprehensive,—as he saw the school of cachalots coming on towards the spot occupied by the frail embarkation. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Most of them are finbacks, though these are always accompanied by numbers of humpbacks and a few "right" whales—the most valuable of all the southern cetacea except the spermaceti or cachalot. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 The great cachalot was now directly ahead, about two hundred fathoms away, and coming down upon them with twice his ordinary speed. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure The sperm or cachalot whale is a dangerous and bold fighter and is perhaps the most interesting of all cetaceans. Ranching, Sport and Travel He had been bitten in two by a cachalot, and had only three arms left, but they were of tremendous length. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story In these objects there was no difficulty in recognising the wreck of the Pandora’s raft, which was drifting at no great distance from the place where they had been cutting up the cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea The sperm whale, or cachalot, has teeth in its lower jaw, and no whalebone whatever. Chatterbox, 1905. I gaily flung myself into my place in the mate's boat one morning, as we were departing in chase of a magnificent cachalot that had been raised just after breakfast. The Ontario Readers Third Book But it may, perhaps, be significant that a cachalot was stranded off Sark on June 3. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The creature had not quite escaped from the cachalot's teeth. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Whoever gave utterance to those sounds—words they were—must be moving onward,—coming towards the carcass of the cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea She is put about, making a course which shortly brings her a mile or two to windward of the slowly-moving cachalot. Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Almost at the same moment it began; and there was I, who, with fearful admiration had so often watched the titanic convulsions of a dying cachalot, actually involved in them. The Ontario Readers Third Book The ambergris may have proceeded from a sick cachalot that had wandered into the Mediterranean. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Some terrified cachalots were flying towards the horizon. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea If it be the whale-ship, reasoned he, she must have come back in search of the cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea The male cachalot has a larger head than that of the female, and it no doubt aids him in his aquatic battles. The Descent of Man To any one studying the peculiar configuration of a cachalot's mouth, it would appear a difficult problem how the calf could suck. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales During all that day, the sailor and the ex-cook of the Pandora kept watch from the summit of the dead cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea You spoke of the cachalot as a small creature. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The tall flag, known among whalers by the name of “whift,” was not the only evidence of the manner in which the cachalot had met its death. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea At the point where he intended to take his stand,—close in by the “crutch” of the cachalot’s tail-fin,—he made three excavations with more care. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Still, as a practice, these creatures leave the cachalot respectfully alone, knowing instinctively that he is not their game. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales The crane itself consisted of the long iron arrow and socket of one of the harpoons found in the carcass of the cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea At length the mass of cachalots broke up, the waves became quiet, and I felt that we were rising to the surface. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Ben assured them that the “case” of a cachalot of the largest size,—such as the one beside them,—often contained five hundred gallons of the liquid spermaceti! The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Ben threw a rope around one of the pectoral fins; and, after making it fast, the Catamaran lay moored alongside the cachalot, like some diminutive tender attached to a huge ship of war! The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea We had hardly got well clear of the heads before we saw a school of cachalots away on the horizon, some twelve miles off the land to the southward. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales With the spermaceti to be extracted from the “case” of the cachalot, they could lay in a stock that would last them for many a day. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea The cachalot is a disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to Fredol's description. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea In the direction of the cachalot’s tail the descent was gradual. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Since that hurried retreat from their moorings by the carcass of the cachalot they had not eaten anything like a regular meal. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea How in the name of wonder so huge and unwieldy a creature as the cachalot could manage to catch those nimble members of the finny tribe, I could not for the life of me divine! The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Had it been the demon of the mist that gave utterance to these speeches, they could not have produced a more fearful effect upon those who heard them from the back of the cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea The battle between the cachalots and the whales had already begun when the Nautilus arrived. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea There hung Snowball in suspense,—holding on to the slippery skin of the cachalot, literally “with tooth and toe-nail.” The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Better satisfied with their prospects than they had been for some time past, they soon fell asleep; and silence reigned around the dark floating mass that included the forms of cachalot and Catamaran. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea The case of the cachalot is still more difficult. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales I am inclined now to believe that there are more and larger cachalots to be found in the Southern Hemisphere, between the parallels of 33deg. and 50deg. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales For one hour this wholesale massacre continued, from which the cachalots could not escape. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The spot where the harpoon had been sticking was in the side of the cachalot, and, as the carcass lay, a broad space around the weapon presented an inclined plane, sloping abruptly towards the water. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea At any rate, we had not entered the straits, but were cruising between Car Nicobar and Junkseylon, when we "met up" with a full-grown cachalot, as ugly a customer as one could wish. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Of one thing I am certain—that, if any of the trio survived, they never afterwards attempted to rush a cachalot. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Almost at the same moment it began; and there was I, who with fearful admiration had so often watched the titanic convulsions of a dying cachalot, actually involved in them. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Those are cachalots—terrible animals, which I have met in troops of two or three hundred. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Scores of sharks,—both of the blue and white species,—attended by their pilots and suckers, were swimming around the carcass of the cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea When between the Cosmoledos and Astove, the next island to the northward, we sighted a "solitary" cachalot one morning just as the day dawned. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Never, as far as I have been able to ascertain, has a cachalot attacked a man swimming or clinging to a piece of wreckage, although such opportunities occur innumerably. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales When at last it was safely shipped, and the tackles cast off, the size of this small portion of a full-grown cachalot's body could be realized, not before. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea We left the crew of the Catamaran in full occupation,—“smoking” shark-flesh on the back of a cachalot whale. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea The resultant oil, when recent, is of a clear white, unlike the golden-tinted fluid obtained from the cachalot. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales When at last we did get into their water, and the mate's harpooner stood up to dart, his foot slipped, and down he came with a clatter enough to scare a cachalot twenty miles away. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales In this optimistic mood, then, I gaily flung myself into my place in the mate's boat one morning, as we were departing in chase of a magnificent cachalot that had been raised just after breakfast. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales The Abraham Lincoln checked its speed and made for the animal signalled, a simple whale, or common cachalot, which soon disappeared amidst a storm of abuse. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea There were several sharks playing around the tail of the cachalot. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea From the difference in shape, he looked much larger than the largest sperm whale we had yet seen, although we had come across some of the very biggest specimens of cachalot. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Except for the head work, removing the blubber was effected in precisely the same way as in the case of the cachalot. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales It was but a school of kogia, or "short-headed" cachalots; but as we secured five of them, averaging seven barrels each, with scarcely any trouble, I felt quite pleased with myself. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales There was a little obliquity about the direction of the spout that made me hopeful, for the cachalot alone sends his spout diagonally upward, all the others spout vertically. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales The “case” of the cachalot contained enough to have roasted all the sharks within a circle of ten mile around it; and, to all appearance, there were hundreds of them inside that circumference. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea It was now a long while since we had been in contact with a cachalot, the last one having been killed by us on the Coast of Japan some six months before. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales This first bowhead yielded us eighteen tuns of oil and a ton of baleen, which made the catch about equal in value to that of a seven-tun cachalot. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales The cachalot, on the other hand, has the orifice at the point of his square snout, the internal channel running in a slightly diagonal direction downwards, and back through the skull to the lungs. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales So in leisurely fashion we worked north, keeping, of course, a bright look-out all the way for straggling cachalots, but not seeing any. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales |
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