【PTE词汇】口语，写作，日常生活都必备！ 海洋生物类高频词汇一览~

reside 住，居住

英文释义: live in

e.g. But my excitement was not shared by Scooter, who, despite residing in a tropical paradise, never did anything except mope around.

vital （仅用于名词前）维持生命所必须的

英文释义: manifesting or characteristic of life

e.g. He moped in one place without moving, or even blinking, for days on end, displaying basically the same vital signs as an ashtray.

decompose 分解

英文释义: break down

e.g. Eventually I would realize–it wasn’t easy to tell–that Scooter had passed on to that Big Pond in the Sky, and I’d bury him in the garden, where he’d decompose and become food for the zucchini, which in turn would be eaten by my dad.

expire 死亡

英文释义: pass from physical life

e.g. She put Marvin into a Tupperware container, where, under Sophie’s loving care and feeding, he thrived for maybe nine seconds before expiring like a little six-legged parking meter.

intensive 强化的

英文释义: characterized by a heightened level or degree

e.g. Fortunately, we have a beetle-intensive patio, so, unbeknownst to Sophie, we were able to replace Marvin with a parade of stand-ins of various sizes

torso 躯干

英文释义: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

e.g. They got some disease like Mongolian Fin Rot, which left them basically just little pooping torsos.

stimulate 激发，鼓励

英文释义: cause to be alert and energetic

e.g. So we got an aquarium and prepared it with special water and special gravel and special fake plants and a special scenic rock so the fish would be intellectually stimulated and get into a decent college.

complex 构造复杂的

英文释义: complicated in structure

e.g. This is when I discovered how complex fish society is.

aggressive 好斗的

英文释义: characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

e.g. “Those are great fish but they do get aggressive when they mate.”

recurring 循环的，再发的

英文释义: coming back

e.g. This was a recurring theme.

violence 暴力

英文释义: a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction

e.g. It turns out that an aquarium is a powder keg that can explode in deadly violence at any moment, just like the Middle East, or junior high school.

pacifist 和平主义者

英文释义: someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

e.g. After much thought, the aquarium guy was able to find me three totally pacifist fish–Barney Fife fish, fish so nonviolent that, in the wild, worms routinely beat them up and steal their lunch money.

skiff 小艇，小型帆船

英文释义：a small boat propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor

e.g.He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

bodega 杂货店

英文释义：small shop selling groceries, especially in a Hispanic area

e.g. “Pedrico gave it to me at the bodega,” he explained.

fathom 英寻

英文释义：a linear unit of measurement for water depth

e.g.He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as he rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean.

iridescent 色彩斑斓的

英文释义：varying in color when seen in different lights

e.g.But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat.

carapace 甲壳

英文释义：hard outer covering or case of certain organisms

e.g.The turtles saw them, approached them from the front, then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all.

churn 搅动

英文释义：be agitated

e.g.The tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps after the bait.

undulation 波动，起伏

英文释义：wavelike motion

e.g.But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm.

placid 平静的

英文释义：free from disturbance by heavy waves

e.g.On each calm placid turn the fish made he was gaining line and he was sure that in two turns more he would have a chance to get the harpoon in.