harpoon
noun /hɑːˈpuːn/
/hɑːrˈpuːn/
- a weapon like a spear attached to a long rope that you can throw or fire from a gun and is used for catching large fish, whales, etc.
渔猎标枪；鱼叉 - They hunt whales with harpoons.
他们用鱼叉捕鲸。
Collocations DictionaryHarpoon is used before these nouns:- gun
词源early 17th cent. (denoting a barbed dart or spear): from French harpon, from harpe ‘dog's claw, clamp’, via Latin from Greek harpē ‘sickle’. - They hunt whales with harpoons.