Coast
[kəʊst] or [kost]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the area within view; 'the coast is clear'.
(noun.) a slope down which sleds may coast; 'when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course'.
(verb.) move effortlessly; by force of gravity.
整理:奥蒂斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) The side of a thing.
(v. t.) The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.
(v. t.) The seashore, or land near it.
(n.) To draw or keep near; to approach.
(n.) To sail by or near the shore.
(n.) To sail from port to port in the same country.
(n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.
(v. t.) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
(v. t.) To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.
(v. t.) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
凯西整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. [Rare.] Border, frontier.[2]. Shore, beach, strand, seaboard, seaside, seacoast.
v. n. [1]. Sail along the coast.[2]. Slide down a hill (on a sled).
康斯坦丁校對
解釋/意思:
n. side or border of land next the sea: the seashore: limit or border of a country.—v.i. to sail along or near a coast: to travel downhill on a bicycle with the feet on the foot-rests.—v.t. to sail by or near to.—ns. Coast′er a vessel that sails along the coast; Coast′-guard a body of men organised to act as a guard along the coast originally intended to prevent smuggling.—adj. Coast′ing keeping near the coast: trading between ports in the same country.—n. the act of sailing or of trading along the coast: advances towards acquaintance courtship: riding downhill on a bicycle with the feet up.—ns. Coast′-line the line or boundary of a coast: shore-line; Coast′-wait′er a custom-house officer who waits upon and superintends the cargoes of vessels engaged in the coasting trade.—advs. Coastward -s toward the coast; Coast′wise along the coast.—adj. carried on along the coast.
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例句/造句/用法:
- We can go round by the coast, Mr. Franklin, said Betteredge; and get to the quicksand in that way with plenty of time to spare. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I myself caught one 370 miles from the coast of Africa, and have heard of others caught at greater distances. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coaSt. They were called slugs. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This morning at breakfast he pointed out of the window and said: Do you see that there hill out there on that African coast? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- On the coast near Valencia. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I cannot quit the coasts of Europe without taking leave of my ever dear friend Mr. Hartley. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He asked, what business we had out of our own islands, unless upon the score of trade, or treaty, or to defend the coasts with our fleet? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- But Scottish waters, and the waters around other coasts of the British Islands, had been traversed by steamboats before this celebrated trip of the _Savannah_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Venice took much of the coasts and islands of the empire, and a Latin, Baldwin of Flanders, was set up as emperor in Constantinople. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Moreover, many Greek cities were on islands and scattered along remote coasts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This is still being done on our sea coasts, but the salt obtained by evaporating the water is very crude and usually contains many impurities. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was forbidden to build any ship larger than a mere coasting boat. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The greater part, both of the exportation and coasting trade of America, is carried on by the capitals of merchants who reside in Great Britain. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But it was too late, there was no room for it, and coasting onto the floor, it disappeared in a most mysterious manner. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He took a big swallow of it and felt it coasting over his tongue in delicate anxsthesia. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- As lazy, fair-weather sailors, careless of the coming hour, we talked gaily of our coasting voyage, of our arrival at Athens. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The Mediterranean, as we have noted (chapter xvii) is a sea for galleys and coasting. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When such restrictions are imposed upon the inland trade, the coasting trade, we may believe, cannot be left very free. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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