plankton: [19] The ultimate source of plankton is Greek plázein ‘hit’, a descendant of the same base as produced English apoplexy, plague, and plectrum. The link between these two unlikelysounding relatives is that something that is hit moves or wanders, and plankton are minute organisms that wander or drift in the ocean. The Greek derivative plagtón meant ‘wanderer’, and the application to ‘plankton’ was first made in German in the 1880s. => plague
plankton (n.)
1891, from German Plankton (1887), coined by German physiologist Viktor Hensen (1835-1924) from Greek plankton, neuter of planktos "wandering, drifting," verbal adjective from plazesthai "to wander, drift," from plazein "to drive astray," from PIE root *plak- (2) "to strike, hit" (see plague (n.)). Related: Planktonic.
plankton 英文释义
1. the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
plankton 双语例句
1. The first organisms that reproduced sexually were free-floating plankton.
最早开始有性繁殖的生物是四处漂浮的浮游生物。
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2. The fish live on the plankton.
这种鱼靠吃浮游生物为生。
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3. Plankton is at the bottom of the marine food chain.
浮游生物处于海洋食物链的最底层.
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4. Diatoms and other tiny organisms form Antarctic plankton.
硅藻和其它微小生物构成了南极浮游生物.
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5. Plankton and nekton are pelagic organisms.
浮游生物和自游生物都是海面的生物.
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plankton 实用场景例句
The first organisms that reproduced sexually were free-floating plankton.
最早开始有性繁殖的生物是四处漂浮的浮游生物。
柯林斯例句
The fish live on the plankton.
这种鱼靠吃浮游生物为生。
柯林斯例句
Plankton is at the bottom of the marine food chain.
浮游生物处于海洋食物链的最底层.
《简明英汉词典》
Diatoms and other tiny organisms form Antarctic plankton.
硅藻和其它微小生物构成了南极浮游生物.
辞典例句
Plankton and nekton are pelagic organisms.
浮游生物和自游生物都是海面的生物.
辞典例句
I cannot see more than that, except beyond plankton is the digit zero.
再往远处我就什么也看不见了.只见浮游生物之外是零这个数字.
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Other plankton species in near equal numbers replaced calcareous microplankton as they died out.
钙质微体浮游生物消亡时,已经有近乎等量的其它浮游生物种类代替它们了.
辞典例句
I know they call the Red Sea red because the plankton make it look really red.
我听说人们所以把红海起名为红海,就是因为浮游生物把海水映红了的缘故.
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This sewage - consuming biological process depends on a closely intorrelated succession of species of animal plankton.
这种污水的生物净化过程就依赖着浮游动物种类的一种密切相关的演替.
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The dead plankton on the bottom must be preserved from oxidation.
在海底的浮游生物必须被保护起来以免遭氧化作用.
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Their tails leave arcs of light as plankton glow in the waves.
它们的尾巴划下一道光弧就像浪间滋生的浮游生物.
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A vagrant current - an underwater breeze thick with plankton - passed between them.
一股水流穿过他们中间,那是富含浮游生物的水中微风.
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In this massive ocean of academia, I felt like plankton.
在这个浩瀚的学术海洋里, 我渺小如浮游.
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They can eat weeds and small organisms, like plankton and algae.
它们可以吃水草和小的生物, 比如浮游生物和藻类.
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These plankton organisms mostly live only a very short time.
