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gup·py
guh pi
复数:guppies
noun
a small, often brightly colored freshwater minnow that is native to northern South America and the West Indies, and often kept in aquariums.
谷比鱼,又称孔雀鱼,得名于其学名(Girardinus guppii),该学名是为了纪念 R.J.L. Guppy,这位出生于英国的特立尼达牧师于1866年向大英博物馆提供了第一份标本。该鱼科的名称来自多塞特郡的一个地方。它的其他早期流行名称包括 rainbow fish 和 million fish。美国流线型潜艇的类别(1948)是由 greater underwater propulsion power 和 -y 的首字母缩写组成的。
R. J. L. Guppy †1916 Trinidadian naturalist
The first known use of guppy was in 1925
guppynoun
a small tropical minnow often kept in aquariums
1 I didn’t see the usual darting of neon tetras, and the guppy tanks were all dark.
2 The second obstacle is the Guppy Multiple Moving Average term group.
第二个障碍是顾比复合移动平均线长期组.
3 Each guppy is numbered one through four.
4 Last year, a study on guppies in Trinidad demonstrated that the fish’s evolution can drive an ecological change as strongly as an environmental factor: the amount of light available.
5 The strong downward pressure is shown by the Guppy Multiple Moving Average relationships.
强劲的下降趋势压力由顾比复合移动平均线的关系显示出来。
6 Fish collectors pay from 19 cents for a guppy to $100 or more for hard-to-breed fish.
养鱼爱好者可以为虹鳉支付19美分,也可能为某种难以繁殖的鱼付一百美元。
7 Small fish like guppies use their energy to reproduce rapidly, but never attain the size that would give them defense against some predators.
8 The fluctuation of symmetry in body plan of an organism, such as the asymmetry of guppy coloration, is unusual.
9 For example, rats, guppies, and monkeys trained in a lab can all use sequences to find food.
10 Cazale delivers this feckless rant with wide-eyed rage and self-pity, flopping up and down in his lounge chair like a beached guppy.
11 Because of the bay’s world-class beauty as a tourist destination, some who don’t know a halibut from a guppy will often come aboard for the boat ride and a chance to catch a fish.
12 Like I’m just the whitest, translucent little guppy human being.
13 Tupac was a guppy that got swallowed up by some ferocious sharks.
14 Decades ago, researchers seeded the headwaters of two streams in the mountainous country with guppies taken from a distant habitat.
15 Another excellent source for guppy genetics information until recently has been Junichi Ito in Japan.
直到最近在日本出现了另外一位杰出的孔雀鱼基因知识的来源,就是伊藤纯一.
16 When the day came, Mr. Guppy put on his best clothes and went to the theater.
当这一天来了, 古皮先生把他最好的衣服,去了剧院.
17 Mr Guppy has no eyes for either of these magnates.
格皮先生顾不上看那两位大人物了.
18 “Your grandma’s a trip,” Lindsey told me after Grandma said something about my having mermaid blood, or at least guppy blood.
19 “There was only one left, the loneliest, most pitiful guppy you ever saw. I put him in the bathtub,” Shelly said.
20 Eventually Heathcote and his colleagues built robotic guppies, pulled by fishing line, to test their hypothesis.