whaling

Japan's government said it was considering strengthening security for the whaling fleet, but did not elaborate.

日本政府说正在考虑对这艘捕鲸船加强保护，但并没有对此作出详细说明。

so that, by the time the captain's party was ready to sail, there were several other whaling vessels on the point of starting.

于是，到船长的捕鲸队准备停当的时候，几艘其他的捕鲸船也正要出发了。

Japan should think about giving up Antarctic "research" , he said, in return for a limited resumption of commercial coastal whaling.

他表示，日本不应该再在南极地区进行研究性捕鲸，而应该有限制地恢复沿海商业捕鲸。

For the past several years he's been trying to stop the hunt in Taiji, one of Japan's iconic whaling towns.

在过去的几年里，他曾经试图阻止太地的捕杀行为，这里是日本捕鲸的代表符号。

Still, looking at a replica of a whaling ship in the museum, Mr Lang wonders whether groundfish boats will end up in a museum, too.

然而，看着博物馆里陈列的捕鲸油轮模型，朗先生怀疑，底栖鱼类捕捞船只最后会不会也被陈列在博物馆里。

This was a minor episode compared with a manoeuvre a week earlier bythe Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling body.

与一个星期前反对捕鲸的海洋看护协会的策略相比，这只是一个小插曲。

Moreover, he threw himself into an important friendship, at a time when he had probably written one draft of his sixth book, on whaling.

此外，在他写完第六部著作初稿的时候，他特别钻研了有关捕鲸的事，和它结下了不解之缘。

Japan take advantage of this loophole, by the name of scientific research whaling, killing hundreds of whales each year.

日本利用这一漏洞，借科研之名捕鲸，每年捕杀数百头鲸。

Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer.

超自然现象研究领域的专家们正在展开调查，探究一艘历史上著名的捕鲸船是否是死去海员亡灵的家园。

If the whaling disappears it would make me feel sad, because that means that the particular form of the culture fades out.

如果捕鲸业消失，我将为此感到难过，因为这意味着这种特殊的文化形式在慢慢消亡。

There has always been an element of theatre to the meetings of the IWC, which was set up in 1946 to regulate whaling around the world.

国际捕鲸委员会的会议一直都含有戏剧成分，它于1946年成立来管理全球的捕鲸活动。

Sea Shepherd has pledged to be there too. This was the closest Japan has come in 25 years to ending its Antarctic whaling programme.

海洋守护者协会已宣誓也开赴南极，这是25年来日本几乎终止南极捕鲸计划的一次。

Japanese whaling was always going to be a major sticking point on the IWC agenda in Madeira.

国际捕鲸委员会在马德拉举行的年会议程中，日本的捕鲸活动一直都是主要的议题。

The Pequod was a fairly small whaling ship the was sailing the next day.

佩廓德号是一条相当小的捕鲸船，次日就要出海了。

Japan and its allies must win the support of three-quarters of the IWC's members to overturn the moratorium on whaling adopted back in 1982.

日本及其盟友必须赢得国际捕鲸委员会成员三分之二的支持来推翻1982年的暂停捕鲸决议。

Greenpeace activists will take peaceful direct action against the fleet if it restarts whaling.

如果它重新开始捕鲸，绿色和平成员将采取和平的直接行动。

Villagers often drive young whales, not banned by the International Whaling Commis-sion, into the shallow bay to be killed. . .

村民经常将国际捕鲸委员会未禁捕的小鲸驱赶至浅水海湾捕杀…

So the plan might slow the steady creep up in whaling. But it wouldn't halt, or even curtail, the current hunt.

所以这项计划也许可以减缓捕鲸活动稳步增长的态势，但是不能终止，甚至不能减少目前的捕杀量。

Tokyo argues that its whaling program helps in the understanding of whale stocks as well as the health of the fragile Antarctic environment.

东京方面辨解称鲸鱼计划帮助人们了解现有的鲸鱼数量和脆弱的南极生态环境。

Yet it is only recently that we have truly turned from a whaling civilization to a whale-watching one.

但我们真正从一种捕鲸文明转向观鲸文明还是在最近。