Coasting
['kostɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coast
(a.) Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
(n.) A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.
(n.) Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.
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例句/造句/用法:
- 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.
- It comprehends both the inland and the coasting trade. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The Portuguese, for example, were developing an Atlantic coasting trade. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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