turn flukes

俗語

Of a whale: to go under, dive. / (nautical slang) To turn in, go to bed.

日本語の意味

クジラが尾びれを使って潜る、または息継ぎのために潜水する / （船員の間での口語表現として）寝る、就寝する

At the end of the whale-watching tour, we watched a distant humpback turn flukes and slip beneath the surface.

ホエールウォッチングツアーの終わりに、遠くにいたザトウクジラが尾びれを返して水面下に潜るのを見ました。

意味（1）

Of a whale: to go under, dive.

意味（2）

(nautical slang) To turn in, go to bed.

But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.

turns flukes

（ present singular third-person ）

turning flukes

（ participle present ）

turned flukes

（ participle past ）

turned flukes

（ past ）