plankton
plankton — 名詞
1. tiny life forms in water, both plant-like and animal-like, that are carried by c
浮游生物
隨水流漂動的微小水生生物群
tiny life forms in water, both plant-like and animal-like, that are carried by currents and are eaten by many larger sea animals
Baby whales feed on plankton near the cold coast each spring.
小鯨魚每年春天都在寒冷的海岸附近吃浮游生物。
collocation: feed on plankton
By July, plankton filled the bay and turned the water green.
到了七月，浮游生物布滿海灣，讓海水變成綠色。
plankton bloom turning water green
The science class found plankton in a beach sample under the microscope.
科學課的學生把海灘樣本放到顯微鏡下，找到了浮游生物。
Plankton drifted near the surface, where young fish came to feed.
浮游生物漂在水面附近，幼魚游過來覓食。
Plankton was measured in each jar from the river mouth.
每個從河口採來的樣本瓶都測了浮游生物含量。
- microorganisms
broader; it can include tiny living things outside water as well
- algae
narrower; this covers only the plant-like side, not tiny drifting animals
- marine life
much broader; it includes all kinds of life in the sea, large and small
文法句型
feed on plankton
plankton in the water
a plankton bloom
用法筆記
Usually treated as an uncountable mass noun in general English, so speakers say some plankton or much plankton, not a plankton or planktons. In science, it often names the whole drifting community in a piece of water, not one single creature.