🇬🇧🇨🇳 plankton - 浮游生物 : English Lesson
noun
Meaning of "plankton" ("浮游生物"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.
Plankton are super tiny plants and animals that float in oceans, seas, and even lakes. They are usually too small to see without a microscope. Many sea creatures, like whales, fish, and baby crabs, eat plankton as their main food. The plant plankton use sunlight to make energy, and the animal plankton swim or drift around. Plankton are very important because they feed many ocean animals and help make the air we breathe.
If you were plankton-sized, a grain of sand would look like a giant boulder blocking your driveway.
One plankton dreamed of becoming a giant sea monster, but it was still only big enough to scare a bubble.
The plankton tried to play hide-and-seek, but they were already practically invisible, so the game never ended.
If plankton could talk, they’d probably shout, "Stop calling us germs, we’re important snacks!"
My fish stared at his fish flakes like, "Excuse me, where’s the fancy plankton I ordered?"
At night she scooped seawater. Small plankton floated in her palms, tiny plankton like green dust. Fish darted to eat the plankton near her fingers; a crab nudged plankton into a shell. She laughed, amazed as plankton fed the sea, then let the plankton go and watched the water calm.
🧑🎓 CEFR Level: C2 Proficient
This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.
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