Communities on the island depended on whaling for their livelihood.

　　島上的居民靠捕鯨為生。

　　Scientists are puzzled as to why the whale had swum to the shore.

　　科學(xué)家們感到不解：為什么這頭鯨游到海岸上來。

　　The blue whale is the largest living thing on the planet

　　藍(lán)鯨是地球上體型最大的生物。

　　I had a whale of a time in Birmingham.

　　我在伯明翰度過了一段非常快樂的時光。

　　The whales were too close; this posed an immediate problem for my photography

　　鯨魚離得太近，這成了我眼下拍攝面臨的迫切問題。