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Not only that, but when a wave threatened to return the seal to danger, the humpback used its massive flipper (at five metres, the longest in the animal kingdom) to nudge it back on.
不僅如此，當(dāng)一個(gè)浪頭即將把海豹掃回險(xiǎn)境之時(shí)，座頭鯨還利用它的巨大的鰭狀肢（五米長(zhǎng)，動(dòng)物王國(guó)中最長(zhǎng)的）把它輕輕地推了回來(lái)。
When this inland sea retreated, Hamilton hypothesizes, the Amazon dolphins remained in the river basin, evolving into striking creatures that bear little resemblance to our beloved Flipper.
哈密爾頓推測(cè)，當(dāng)這片內(nèi)陸海退去，亞馬遜河豚卻留了下來(lái)，逐漸進(jìn)化為一種恐怖動(dòng)物，與我們鐘愛(ài)的鰭狀肢動(dòng)物，外貌上已大相徑庭了。
Before being fitted with her artificial fin, which her handlers refer to as her "ninja suit, " Allison the green sea turtle could only swim around in tight circles because she only had one flipper.
艾莉森的飼養(yǎng)員把她的鰭比作“忍者服”，由于在裝上人工鰭之前她只有一只鰭，所以這只綠海龜只能在很有限的范圍里游。

He usually has his head buried in the guts of a vintage machine, maybe fixing a flipper on Mata Hari.
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As sellers panicked and cut their asking prices, the Flipper sometimes pulled his sell order and bought, scoring the contracts at an advantageous price.
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He claims he applied to be a burger-flipper six months ago.
ECONOMIST: Out of sight, out of mind

(PART OF CREATURE) one of two parts like arms on the bodies of some sea creatures, such as seals and penguins, used for swimming
(SHOE) a type of large, flat rubber shoe used for swimming, especially underwater

Flippers are flat pieces of rubber that you can wear on your feet to help you swim more quickly, especially underwater.
The flippers of 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.