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marlin

/mahr-lin/US // ˈmɑr lɪn //UK // (ˈmɑːlɪn) //

马林鱼,旗鱼,马林,剑鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mar·lin, mar·lins.

    • : any large, saltwater game fish of the genera Makaira and Tetrapterus, having the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike structure.

Examples

  • Marlin began her work, which centers on brain development and learning, by identifying one of the mechanisms responsible for a seismic shift in social behavior.

  • That’s why Marlin, a psychologist and neuroscientist at Columbia University who has now fostered children herself, studies a unique sliver of epigenetics, or the impact our environments and behaviors have on our genes.

  • “Wait…” Suddenly a huge, graceful black marlin leaps out of the water, sending a shower of water ten feet high.

  • I was out, maybe in the Great Barrier Reef catching black marlin.

  • He likes when the sun glances off it from the top, because it looks like the black marlin.

  • One more word about the mineral water industry in Marlin, Texas, and I was about to scream.

  • The dedication of State Department diplomats such as Marlin Hardinger—on his fourth year in Lashkar Gah—is breathtaking.

  • The fish resembled a small marlin in shape, but it looked as if its sides had been painted by an abstract artist.

  • Jordde suddenly seized up a marlin pin, raised it, and shouted at Urson, "Get down below before I break your skull open."

  • Jordde's marlin made an inch of splinters in the length of wood against which he had been leaning.

  • It was a fierce effort to free the hook, a leap not beautiful and graceful, like that of the Marlin, but magnificent and dogged.

  • We had learned the last few days that broadbills will strike when not on the surface, just as Marlin swordfish do.