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sea

/see/US // si //UK // (siː) //

海,海洋,大海,海上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
    • : a division of these waters, of considerable extent, more or less definitely marked off by land boundaries: the North Sea.
    • : one of the seven seas; ocean.
    • : a large lake or landlocked body of water.
    • : the degree or amount of turbulence of the ocean or other body of water, as caused by the wind.
    • : the waves.
    • : a large wave: The heavy seas almost drowned us.
    • : a widely extended, copious, or overwhelming quantity: a sea of faces; a sea of troubles.
    • : the work, travel, and shipboard life of a sailor: The sea is a hard life but a rewarding one.
    • : Astronomy. mare.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.

Phrases

  • sea legs
  • seal of approval
  • seal off
  • seal one's fate
  • at sea
  • between a rock and a hard place (devil and the deep blue sea)
  • high seas
  • not the only fish in the sea
  • put out (to sea)

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Examples

  • There’s also a new altimeter to see how far above or below sea level you are.

  • A couple months ago, the deep-sea servers were brought back up to the surface so engineers could inspect them and evaluate how they’d performed while under water.

  • Rising seas can play a role in fighting climate change, her team finds.

  • Rising seas and increasingly violent hurricanes are making thousands of miles of American shoreline nearly uninhabitable.

  • A complete collapse of the glacier, which some researchers estimate could happen within the next few decades, could increase sea levels by about 65 centimeters.

  • My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

  • It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.

  • The wreckage lies no more than around 100 feet down in the Java Sea.

  • And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.

  • Search teams find dozens of people and jet debris floating in the Java Sea, as the airline confirms the wreckage is from QZ8501.

  • Edna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.

  • Edna Pontellier, casting her eyes about, had finally kept them at rest upon the sea.

  • The countries about the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters.

  • All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea.

  • Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.