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ocean

/oh-shuhn/US // ˈoʊ ʃən //UK // (ˈəʊʃən) //

海洋

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
    • : any of the geographical divisions of this body, commonly given as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic oceans.
    • : a vast expanse or quantity: oceans of opportunity;the ocean of people at Woodstock.

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Examples

  • And, by warming the oceans, climate change is also setting the stage for supercharged storms, scientists say.

  • So, while local materials may have delivered the bulk of Earth’s water, the oceans were likely topped off a bit later by collisions with remote space rocks.

  • In particular, models have a hard time reproducing what happens to an MJO when it hits Southeast Asia’s mix of islands and ocean known as the Maritime Continent.

  • Your house in the redwoods, by the creek and ocean, lasted nearly 19 years.

  • The regular eruption of volcanoes along the rift and new insights into the break up of continents adds to the belief that the continent may be splitting to form a new ocean.

  • These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.

  • Miles of Soviet era housing projects sat along on the ocean.

  • Fidel jumped out and hopped into the ocean without getting wet.

  • Opposite is a red-brick monastery leaning like an ocean liner in the snow.

  • The real story of who killed bin Laden may have gone to the bottom of the ocean or been plowed back into the dirt in Abbottabad.

  • They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.

  • His soul was tossed on the billows of a tempestuous ocean, in the midst of which he saw his father perishing.

  • Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.

  • But this port (to obviate misunderstanding) is not on the Ocean lying eastward, but on that gulf which I have called French bay.

  • The common law is therefore always slowly changing like the ocean and is never at rest.