Marine
[mə'riːn] or [mə'rin]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a member of the United States Marine Corps.
(noun.) a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land.
(adj.) native to or inhabiting the sea; 'marine plants and animals such as seaweed and whales' .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea .
(adj.) of or relating to the sea; 'marine explorations' .
(adj.) of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps); 'marine barracks' .
手打:利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
(a.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.
(a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.
(a.) The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.
(a.) A picture representing some marine subject.
克拉丽斯編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Oceanic, pelagic, of the sea.[2]. Maritime, naval, nautical.
n. [1]. Navy, shipping, sea affairs.[2]. Soldier (of a ship of war).
珍妮特編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. of or belonging to the sea: done at sea: representing the sea: near the sea.—n. a soldier serving on shipboard: the whole navy of a country or state: naval affairs: a sea-piece in painting.—ns. Mar′igraph a self-registering tide-gauge; Marinade′ a liquor or pickle in which fish or meat is steeped before cooking to improve the flavour.—v.t. Mar′inate to salt or pickle.—n. Mar′iner a seaman or sailor: one who assists in navigating ships.—Marine acid hydrochloric acid; Marine boiler a boiler fitted for use in steamships; Marine engine an engine fitted for use in a steamship; Marine insurance insurance of ships or their cargoes when at sea; Marine soap a kind of coconut-oil soap adapted for washing with sea-water; Marine store a place where old ships' materials are bought and sold.—Tell that to the marines a phrase expressive of disbelief and ridicule from the sailor's contempt for the marine's ignorance of seamanship.
編輯:西尔维亚
例句/造句/用法:
- The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- During this length of time the shell might have been carried by a marine country of average swiftness to a distance of 660 geographical miles. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The latest achievement in marine architecture, however, is the Deutschland, built for the Hamburg-American Company. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Such boilers are adapted for portable stationary engines, locomotives, fire and marine engines, and the fire is built within the boiler frame. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- By the year 1880 the standard form of marine engine for large powers had become the compound double cylinder type, expanding steam from an initial pressure as high as 90 pounds. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- As early as 1747 he had been interested in geology and had seen specimens of the fossil remains of marine shells from th e strata of the highest parts of the Alleghany Mountains. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish, and oysters. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- By means of the brilliancy of the lamps marine animals in the lower depths were attracted and then easily ensnared. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Is your sea-shore here considered a fine specimen of marine landscape, Mr. Betteredge? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- This modesty of mine directed my attention to the marine-store shops, and such shops as Mr. Dolloby's, in preference to the regular dealers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The same authority estimated the total horse power of steam vessels in the merchant marine of the world in 1895 to be 12,005,000. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Marine glue is a cement made by dissolving India rubber in oil of turpentine or coal-naphtha, to which an equal quantity of shellac is added. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The horse-marine, who had entered with the sort of strut which became a commander-in-chief of No. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The gentleman who keeps her is a captain of horse-marines. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I only know that I believe to this hour that he WAS in the Marines once upon a time, without knowing why. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Porter landed a force of sailors and marines to move against the sea-front in co-operation with Ames's assault. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- These sailors and marines had worked their way up to within a couple of hundred yards of the fort before the assault. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
校對:特伦斯