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noun siː often the sea1The expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its land masses. 海，海洋 a ban on dumping radioactive wastes in the sea 禁止向海洋倾倒放射性废料。 mass noun rocky bays lapped by vivid blue sea 蔚蓝色的大海包围的岩石海湾。 Example sentencesExamples - She breathed in and smelt the salty sea mixed with a sent of spring.
- The waves of the deep blue sea lapped softly at the shore.
- Yields of herring, sea urchin and rockfish also dropped dramatically during this season.
- They look for trilobites and fossilised sea creatures that are preserved in the stone along the path, easily spottable for amateur fossil hunters.
- New standards to help safeguard the welfare of animals transported by road and sea have been agreed at a major conference in Paris.
- The lone wooden bench overlooking the vast sea beckoned her for company.
- Facing the dark open sea and silent of traffic, the village at night is a bubble of conviviality.
- Fiji's natural beauty white sand beaches, calm blue seas and nodding palm trees - remains a considerable pull.
- They swim in inland waters and lakes and never taste the salty sea.
- Sadly, the most easily-attainable sources for iodine are iodized salt and sea products, both of which can be taboo for pregnant women.
- They may remember the hot salty sea, their ancestral home, their first food.
- On Tybee Island, it was estimated that 43.82 acres of land would be lost to the sea.
- The coastline is made up of various shades of gold set in a translucent turquoise sea.
- Whereas estimates of phytoplankton were initially too high, sea ice primary production estimates were initially too low.
- The jet started to rotate and face the open sea.
- For Rachel, the vastness of the sea brings comfort and reassurance - it's a constant, she says, in a constantly changing world, and its great expanse puts our problems into perspective.
- I walked over to an east-facing balcony that overlooks the sea far below.
- And I immediately felt that inside me was this inland ocean with its population of one, this little sea mammal who was swimming around.
- I looked down, and saw a small island in the middle of the turquoise sea.
- Although, ironically, the lack of rain in recent years has made the problem worse, as winter flows can help flush sediments through the system and out to sea.
- But the lure of the sea was too much and he joined the family as they trawled the beaches.
Synonyms (the) ocean, the waves informal the drink British informal the briny North American informal salt chuck literary the deep, the main, the foam New Zealand rare moana marine, ocean, oceanic salt, saltwater, seawater, watery, pelagic ocean-going, seagoing, seafaring, afloat maritime, naval, nautical rare thalassic, pelagian - 1.1often in place names A roughly definable area of the sea.
常用于地名海 黑海。 Example sentencesExamples - Between screens and building are long thin pools, symbolic of the three seas that surround Anatolia.
- The audience could imagine the various routes leading to the edge of the Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean seas, as though we stood on a contour model with rivers and mountains.
- The White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia.
- The goal of Save the North Sea project has been to reduce marine litter in the North Sea by changing the attitudes and behaviour of the people using the area.
- Population genetic structures of the mackerel (Scomber scombrus) and chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) were studied in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1.2in place names A large lake.
用于地名大湖 加利利海。 Example sentencesExamples - Surely the simplest answer to the Dead Sea saltiness question is that it is really a lake which has no outlet.
- Since the beginning of time, the Sea of Galilee has provided its fishermen with a plentiful source of sustenance.
- Once the world's fourth largest lake, the mighty Aral Sea is now in its death throes.
- 1.3mass noun Used to refer to waves as opposed to calm sea.
（与平静海面相对的）海浪 there was still some sea running 海上仍然风浪滚滚。 Example sentencesExamples - My walk is an inelegant bob… as if navigating a choppy sea.
- Using it first time in a crowded boat in a rough sea is a recipe for disaster.
- 1.4seas Large waves.
用于地名大湖 the lifeboat met seas of thirty-five feet head-on 救生艇迎面遇上35英尺高的巨浪。 Example sentencesExamples - Fish were recorded thrown ashore in all tidal phases and there was little evidence rough seas were responsible.
- While the seas can be savage, Graham loves the power of the ocean, the wildness of the local landscape and, in particular, the clarity of the light in this part of Scotland.
- The winds that night blew a full gale, and they piled up seas bigger than I could ever have hoped to handle.
- However, the flagship was soon buffeted by very heavy seas, and began taking on water.
- At 6:30 the next morning, the seas were finally calm, and we pulled into the port of New York.
- Weather has also contributed to the seclusion and peculiarity of the Azores - stormy winter seas often prevent access to the smaller islands even by air for days at a time.
- The artist's rising seas appear to be made of metal, stone, earth and glass, as well as water.
- But the seas are beginning to part, and several paths forward are appearing before you.
- The farmer is left to trawl the seas, casting a net for profit in an export-driven market.
- He captures the seas as well as the tranquil horizons in his works.
- Two Plexiglas dioramas of a boat on storm-tossed seas depicted Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated South Pole expedition of 1914.
Synonyms wave, breaker, roller, comber, billow Australian bombora informal boomer North American informal kahuna (seas), swell, white horses, white caps - 1.5count noun A vast expanse or quantity of something.
〈喻〉广大；众多 she scanned the sea of faces for Stephen 她在人潮如涌的人群中搜寻史蒂文。 Example sentencesExamples - Shot in Brazil at a dozen different games, this 8 1/2-minute video consists of seas of rapturous fans in the montage of color that Dean often features in his works.
- Sioux County, Iowa, is a fertile, wall-to-wall sea of corn and soybeans.
- From freezers and hardening tunnels to compressors, evaporators and air handling units, a sea of chilling and freezing equipment is available to the dairy industry.
- We just get new business parks surrounded by seas of cars and a trim of polite landscaping just like anywhere else.
- Others will find a healthful haven among a sea of fortified yogurts and dairy beverages.
- The cheese then enters a sea of brine salt solution for cooling.
- We appreciate the flavorful food, recognizing in the candlelight the small, spicy leaves we snipped from a sea of greens that bright morning.
- From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial you saw a sea of humanity.
- After wading around in difficult seas of theory and producing some charming and intriguing drawings, he made his name with the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
- As we approached the town, I was shocked to see a sea of red from horizon to horizon.
- If it does not, we shall descend into the kind of world that is already suggested in some US and Asian cities, with islands of vulgar opulence isolated in seas of mediocrity - or worse.
- And in the past few weeks, something completely different has emerged: ballpoint on canvas, seas of tiny reptile-like scales, swirling away in the artist's characteristic fashion.
- It was great fun to watch a sea of red and white jogging around the town.
Synonyms expanse, stretch, span, area, tract, sweep, blanket, sheet, carpet, mass multitude, host, profusion, abundance, plethora
Phrases1Sailing on the sea. 出海，航海 he spends long hours at sea on a small catamaran Example sentencesExamples - ‘Our goal is to provide the safest, highest quality U.S.-produced dairy products to our troops anywhere, ground troops or ships at sea,’ he says.
- At the end of the video, the figure sets off in a small boat, apparently lost at sea in an inhospitable universe.
- White captives taken at sea and spirited away into harems were virtually synonymous with the infamy of the Regency of Algiers, and the subject became a staple of visual representation.
- More explicitly, the building is an event on the horizon, like a ship at sea, with its assemblage of long white volumes rising out of a dense dark base clad in strips of charcoal-coloured slate.
- ‘Over time, the images evolved from ships in port to more elaborate ships at sea,’ said Freeman.
- Faces of sailors and their lost equipment are scattered throughout the waves, representing the men who died at sea.
- Rescuers found the craftsman in his boat at sea, unharmed.
- When the building is lit at night, the glazing disappears, making the naked structure look like a platform at sea.
- Ever since wooden ships were felled by storms at sea or robbed by pirates, successful businesses risked coming to grief crossing oceans.
- The final 7 percent were capable of processing their catch while at sea.
- 1.1Confused or unable to decide what to do.
困惑，不知所措 he feels at sea with economics 他对经济学一窍不通。 Example sentencesExamples - Rather you want to throw out a lifeline to the subjects, who are clearly confused and all at sea.
- This was a striking turnaround for a party that had been all at sea.
- As though that were not bad enough, we are now being told that our investment policy, which is momentous to any purposeful economic development, is all at sea.
- They are, in a phrase, all at sea and sinking fast.
- While Kerry were solid enough at the back, they were all at sea at midfield, while they never threatened down the wings and this was the most disappointing aspect of all.
- After barely one hundred lines, even the most astute and intrepid explorer is all at sea and gasping for air.
- She described how the first week they were all at sea, but in the second week they were soaking up the experience like sponges.
- She appeared all at sea, with no script but her presence of mind to rely on.
- The gaeltacht side was all at sea (no pun intended) in an opening half dominated by the losers.
- The structuring of the story is sometimes all at sea, but the tone of the show - a kind of loveable gruesomeness - is very appealing.
Synonyms confused, perplexed, puzzled, baffled, mystified, bemused, bewildered, nonplussed, disconcerted, disoriented, dumbfounded, at a loss, at sixes and sevens, adrift
By means of a ship or ships. 乘船 other army units were sent by sea 其他部队通过海路运送。 Example sentencesExamples - Londoners had been heating their houses with coal since the seventeenth century and this came by sea until the mid-nineteenth century, when the railways took over this trade.
- Overseas visitors who arrived by sea had different characteristics than overseas visitors who arrived by air.
- And so we went by sea to Lowestoft.
1Set out on a voyage. 出海航行 the fishermen were unable to go to sea in such storms Example sentencesExamples - They certainly hooked him on sailing when he was a lad, and he's been going to sea in boats ever since.
- This meets the need for a consistent, repeatable and auditable process to assess the ship's material state before it goes to sea.
- ‘The problem has been, when a ship goes to sea, the crew left behind doesn't have a platform to train on,’ said the Information Systems leading chief petty officer.
- It's my desire that when any craft goes to sea, it would be equipped with safety devices,’ the Minister said.
- And fishing is more than just ships going to sea, it's all that happens down the industry all the way to the fish market, putting people out of business there.
- Our intrepid reporter goes to sea in pursuit of an edible, ethical and sustainable alternative - our native mackerel
- Subject to the following provisions of this section, a crew agreement shall be carried in the ship to which it relates whenever the ship goes to sea.
- It's like the Wise Men of Chelm going to sea with a sieve to collect water.
- She placed her hand on the pirates shoulder and recalled the words to the prayer her brothers always said before going to sea.
- According to official statistics, there are about 24 pelagic vessels in Namibia, most of which have not been going to sea in the past three seasons following poor catches.
- Despite going to sea on a boat with no windows, no fantail, no helipad or even a hatch to allow in some tension-breaking fresh salt air, submariners are still Sailors at heart.
- 1.1Become a sailor in a navy or a merchant navy.
（在海军或商船队）当水手 Garret left the small family farm in his late teens and went to sea Example sentencesExamples - And sailors going to sea would take a hot cross bun with them to guard against sickness
- He went to sea as a cabin boy and cook at the age of 9, and from 1880 worked as a fisherman in Cornwall.
- Even the people who go to sea and have a really bad time health-wise, say it was a good experience and they are looking forward to going to sea later.
- She plans to take over parenting responsibility for her daughter while her husband, who has been working ashore, goes to sea next year.
- Phelps, who first went to sea as a cabin boy in 1816, worked from original journals and logbooks now mostly lost.
- To have a Warrant as opposed to a Commission, as NAM Rodgers tells us, derives from the military and governing classes going to sea and therefore symbolised both a social and professional difference.
- For the next decade, he went to sea on various voyages, the longest being several years.
- I would recommend both to any person who is interested in going to sea or who will soon be reporting aboard that first Navy ship.
- Women have been going to sea in the RN for 14 years, so the prospect of a female commanding officer of a destroyer or frigate draws ever nearer.
- Their travels grew more exciting as they traveled further every day, as they were welcomed on any ship that went to sea.
- This notion has undoubtedly partly arisen because of Doctor Johnson's famous observation that going to sea was akin to being in prison, with the added danger of drowning.
Situated on the coast. 在岸边 Example sentencesExamples - Unless we can find a place on the sea, that takes pets, for the same price, we won't be moving.
- Tulum was not a city but rather an outpost on the sea - it may have been a temple, and some suggest it also may have been an ancient lighthouse.
- Today I was able to sleep in, and after lunch, I borrowed Bin's car and drove to Narbonne, a town on the sea.
Leave land on a voyage. 出海航行 the Alabama put to sea the next morning Example sentencesExamples - ‘Won't catch me putting out to sea with that berk,’ Dave said.
- In Camara de Lobos, where Winston Churchill spent his leisure time painting, I watched craggy fishermen putting out to sea in red, yellow and blue-striped boats that dot the horseshoe beach.
- Fishing is still an important activity in the area and one can sit for hours watching fishermen putting out to sea in unfeasibly flimsy wooden craft.
- None of the planned projects is offshore, however, although in Europe, where suitable land is scarce, more and more projects are putting out to sea.
- He puts to sea again and lands at Mytilene, where through Lysimachus and to his intense joy Pericles discovers his daughter.
- I joined her in Kalkan for a cruise to Olympos, putting out to sea on a glorious October morning, the sun scorching hot on the scrubbed wooden deck and the water as blue as a kingfisher's back.
- Can anyone imagine the Yankee traders of the 19th century allowing OSHA agents to inspect their clipper ships to inform them that their safety precautions for putting out to sea were not up to code?
Synonyms set sail, put to sea, put out, put out to sea, leave port, leave dock, leave harbour, hoist sail, raise sail, weigh anchor, put off, shove off
OriginOld English sǣ, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zee and German See. An Old English word, related to Dutch zee and German See. A person who is at sea or all at sea is confused or unable to decide what to do—they are being likened to a ship out of the sight of land which has lost its bearings. The term sea change for a profound or notable transformation comes from the song ‘Full fathom five’ in Shakespeare's The Tempest: ‘Nothing of him that doth fade, / But doth suffer a sea change / Into something rich and strange.’
Rhymesabsentee, açai, addressee, adoptee, agree, allottee, amputee, appellee, appointee, appraisee, après-ski, assignee, asylee, attendee, bailee, bain-marie, Bangui, bargee, bawbee, be, Bea, bee, bootee, bouquet garni, bourgeoisie, Brie, BSc, buckshee, Capri, cc, chimpanzee, cohabitee, conferee, consignee, consultee, Cree, debauchee, decree, dedicatee, Dee, degree, deportee, dernier cri, detainee, devisee, devotee, divorcee, draftee, dree, Dundee, dungaree, eau-de-vie, emcee, employee, endorsee, en famille, ennui, enrollee, escapee, esprit, evacuee, examinee, expellee, fee, fiddle-de-dee, flea, flee, fleur-de-lis, foresee, franchisee, free, fusee (US fuzee), Gardaí, garnishee, gee, ghee, glee, goatee, grandee, Grand Prix, grantee, Guarani, guarantee, he, HMRC, indictee, inductee, internee, interviewee, invitee, jamboree, Jaycee, jeu d'esprit, key, knee, Lea, lee, legatee, Leigh, lessee, Ley, licensee, loanee, lychee, manatee, Manichee, maquis, Marie, marquee, me, Midi, mortgagee, MSc, nominee, obligee, Otomi, parolee, Parsee, parti pris, patentee, Pawnee, payee, pea, pee, permittee, plc, plea, pledgee, pollee, presentee, promisee, quay, ratatouille, referee, refugee, releasee, repartee, retiree, returnee, rupee, scot-free, scree, secondee, see, settee, Shanxi, Shawnee, shchi, she, shea, si, sirree, ski, spree, standee, suttee, tant pis, tea, tee, tee-hee, Tennessee, testee, the, thee, three, thuggee, Tiree, Torquay, trainee, Tralee, transferee, tree, Trincomalee, trustee, tutee, twee, Twi, undersea, vestee, vis-à-vis, wagon-lit, Waikiki, warrantee, we, wee, whee, whoopee, ye, yippee, Zuider Zee abbreviation short for Single European Act
Definition of sea in US English: seanounsisē often the sea1The expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its landmasses. 海，海洋 a ban on dumping radioactive wastes in the sea 禁止向海洋倾倒放射性废料。 rocky bays lapped by vivid blue sea 蔚蓝色的大海包围的岩石海湾。 Example sentencesExamples - The waves of the deep blue sea lapped softly at the shore.
- New standards to help safeguard the welfare of animals transported by road and sea have been agreed at a major conference in Paris.
- Yields of herring, sea urchin and rockfish also dropped dramatically during this season.
- But the lure of the sea was too much and he joined the family as they trawled the beaches.
- For Rachel, the vastness of the sea brings comfort and reassurance - it's a constant, she says, in a constantly changing world, and its great expanse puts our problems into perspective.
- Fiji's natural beauty white sand beaches, calm blue seas and nodding palm trees - remains a considerable pull.
- They swim in inland waters and lakes and never taste the salty sea.
- They look for trilobites and fossilised sea creatures that are preserved in the stone along the path, easily spottable for amateur fossil hunters.
- The jet started to rotate and face the open sea.
- She breathed in and smelt the salty sea mixed with a sent of spring.
- Facing the dark open sea and silent of traffic, the village at night is a bubble of conviviality.
- Whereas estimates of phytoplankton were initially too high, sea ice primary production estimates were initially too low.
- Sadly, the most easily-attainable sources for iodine are iodized salt and sea products, both of which can be taboo for pregnant women.
- They may remember the hot salty sea, their ancestral home, their first food.
- I walked over to an east-facing balcony that overlooks the sea far below.
- And I immediately felt that inside me was this inland ocean with its population of one, this little sea mammal who was swimming around.
- Although, ironically, the lack of rain in recent years has made the problem worse, as winter flows can help flush sediments through the system and out to sea.
- I looked down, and saw a small island in the middle of the turquoise sea.
- On Tybee Island, it was estimated that 43.82 acres of land would be lost to the sea.
- The lone wooden bench overlooking the vast sea beckoned her for company.
- The coastline is made up of various shades of gold set in a translucent turquoise sea.
Synonyms ocean, the ocean, the waves marine, ocean, oceanic - 1.1often in place names A roughly definable area of the sea.
常用于地名海 黑海。 Example sentencesExamples - The audience could imagine the various routes leading to the edge of the Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean seas, as though we stood on a contour model with rivers and mountains.
- Between screens and building are long thin pools, symbolic of the three seas that surround Anatolia.
- The White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia.
- Population genetic structures of the mackerel (Scomber scombrus) and chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) were studied in the Mediterranean Sea.
- The goal of Save the North Sea project has been to reduce marine litter in the North Sea by changing the attitudes and behaviour of the people using the area.
- 1.2in place names A large lake.
用于地名大湖 加利利海。 Example sentencesExamples - Once the world's fourth largest lake, the mighty Aral Sea is now in its death throes.
- Since the beginning of time, the Sea of Galilee has provided its fishermen with a plentiful source of sustenance.
- Surely the simplest answer to the Dead Sea saltiness question is that it is really a lake which has no outlet.
- 1.3 Used to refer to waves as opposed to calm sea.
（与平静海面相对的）海浪 there was still some sea running 海上仍然风浪滚滚。 Example sentencesExamples - My walk is an inelegant bob… as if navigating a choppy sea.
- Using it first time in a crowded boat in a rough sea is a recipe for disaster.
- 1.4seas Large waves.
用于地名大湖 the lifeboat met seas of thirty-five feet head-on 救生艇迎面遇上35英尺高的巨浪。 Example sentencesExamples - Fish were recorded thrown ashore in all tidal phases and there was little evidence rough seas were responsible.
- The artist's rising seas appear to be made of metal, stone, earth and glass, as well as water.
- At 6:30 the next morning, the seas were finally calm, and we pulled into the port of New York.
- Weather has also contributed to the seclusion and peculiarity of the Azores - stormy winter seas often prevent access to the smaller islands even by air for days at a time.
- While the seas can be savage, Graham loves the power of the ocean, the wildness of the local landscape and, in particular, the clarity of the light in this part of Scotland.
- He captures the seas as well as the tranquil horizons in his works.
- The winds that night blew a full gale, and they piled up seas bigger than I could ever have hoped to handle.
- The farmer is left to trawl the seas, casting a net for profit in an export-driven market.
- Two Plexiglas dioramas of a boat on storm-tossed seas depicted Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated South Pole expedition of 1914.
- However, the flagship was soon buffeted by very heavy seas, and began taking on water.
- But the seas are beginning to part, and several paths forward are appearing before you.
Synonyms wave, breaker, roller, comber, billow - 1.5 A vast expanse or quantity of something.
〈喻〉广大；众多 she scanned the sea of faces for Stephen 她在人潮如涌的人群中搜寻史蒂文。 Example sentencesExamples - If it does not, we shall descend into the kind of world that is already suggested in some US and Asian cities, with islands of vulgar opulence isolated in seas of mediocrity - or worse.
- It was great fun to watch a sea of red and white jogging around the town.
- We just get new business parks surrounded by seas of cars and a trim of polite landscaping just like anywhere else.
- Shot in Brazil at a dozen different games, this 8 1/2-minute video consists of seas of rapturous fans in the montage of color that Dean often features in his works.
- We appreciate the flavorful food, recognizing in the candlelight the small, spicy leaves we snipped from a sea of greens that bright morning.
- The cheese then enters a sea of brine salt solution for cooling.
- And in the past few weeks, something completely different has emerged: ballpoint on canvas, seas of tiny reptile-like scales, swirling away in the artist's characteristic fashion.
- From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial you saw a sea of humanity.
- Sioux County, Iowa, is a fertile, wall-to-wall sea of corn and soybeans.
- From freezers and hardening tunnels to compressors, evaporators and air handling units, a sea of chilling and freezing equipment is available to the dairy industry.
- After wading around in difficult seas of theory and producing some charming and intriguing drawings, he made his name with the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
- Others will find a healthful haven among a sea of fortified yogurts and dairy beverages.
- As we approached the town, I was shocked to see a sea of red from horizon to horizon.
Synonyms expanse, stretch, span, area, tract, sweep, blanket, sheet, carpet, mass
Phrases1Sailing on the sea. 出海，航海 Example sentencesExamples - Rescuers found the craftsman in his boat at sea, unharmed.
- More explicitly, the building is an event on the horizon, like a ship at sea, with its assemblage of long white volumes rising out of a dense dark base clad in strips of charcoal-coloured slate.
- Ever since wooden ships were felled by storms at sea or robbed by pirates, successful businesses risked coming to grief crossing oceans.
- ‘Over time, the images evolved from ships in port to more elaborate ships at sea,’ said Freeman.
- ‘Our goal is to provide the safest, highest quality U.S.-produced dairy products to our troops anywhere, ground troops or ships at sea,’ he says.
- Faces of sailors and their lost equipment are scattered throughout the waves, representing the men who died at sea.
- At the end of the video, the figure sets off in a small boat, apparently lost at sea in an inhospitable universe.
- When the building is lit at night, the glazing disappears, making the naked structure look like a platform at sea.
- White captives taken at sea and spirited away into harems were virtually synonymous with the infamy of the Regency of Algiers, and the subject became a staple of visual representation.
- The final 7 percent were capable of processing their catch while at sea.
- 1.1Confused or unable to decide what to do.
困惑，不知所措 he feels at sea with economics 他对经济学一窍不通。 Example sentencesExamples - They are, in a phrase, all at sea and sinking fast.
- As though that were not bad enough, we are now being told that our investment policy, which is momentous to any purposeful economic development, is all at sea.
- She appeared all at sea, with no script but her presence of mind to rely on.
- After barely one hundred lines, even the most astute and intrepid explorer is all at sea and gasping for air.
- She described how the first week they were all at sea, but in the second week they were soaking up the experience like sponges.
- Rather you want to throw out a lifeline to the subjects, who are clearly confused and all at sea.
- This was a striking turnaround for a party that had been all at sea.
- The structuring of the story is sometimes all at sea, but the tone of the show - a kind of loveable gruesomeness - is very appealing.
- The gaeltacht side was all at sea (no pun intended) in an opening half dominated by the losers.
- While Kerry were solid enough at the back, they were all at sea at midfield, while they never threatened down the wings and this was the most disappointing aspect of all.
Synonyms confused, perplexed, puzzled, baffled, mystified, bemused, bewildered, nonplussed, disconcerted, disoriented, dumbfounded, at a loss, at sixes and sevens, adrift
By means of a ship or ships. 乘船 other army units were sent by sea 其他部队通过海路运送。 Example sentencesExamples - Overseas visitors who arrived by sea had different characteristics than overseas visitors who arrived by air.
- Londoners had been heating their houses with coal since the seventeenth century and this came by sea until the mid-nineteenth century, when the railways took over this trade.
- And so we went by sea to Lowestoft.
1Set out on a voyage. 出海航行 Example sentencesExamples - And fishing is more than just ships going to sea, it's all that happens down the industry all the way to the fish market, putting people out of business there.
- Despite going to sea on a boat with no windows, no fantail, no helipad or even a hatch to allow in some tension-breaking fresh salt air, submariners are still Sailors at heart.
- It's my desire that when any craft goes to sea, it would be equipped with safety devices,’ the Minister said.
- They certainly hooked him on sailing when he was a lad, and he's been going to sea in boats ever since.
- According to official statistics, there are about 24 pelagic vessels in Namibia, most of which have not been going to sea in the past three seasons following poor catches.
- Our intrepid reporter goes to sea in pursuit of an edible, ethical and sustainable alternative - our native mackerel
- It's like the Wise Men of Chelm going to sea with a sieve to collect water.
- ‘The problem has been, when a ship goes to sea, the crew left behind doesn't have a platform to train on,’ said the Information Systems leading chief petty officer.
- Subject to the following provisions of this section, a crew agreement shall be carried in the ship to which it relates whenever the ship goes to sea.
- She placed her hand on the pirates shoulder and recalled the words to the prayer her brothers always said before going to sea.
- This meets the need for a consistent, repeatable and auditable process to assess the ship's material state before it goes to sea.
- 1.1Become a sailor in a navy or a merchant navy.
（在海军或商船队）当水手 Example sentencesExamples - Even the people who go to sea and have a really bad time health-wise, say it was a good experience and they are looking forward to going to sea later.
- I would recommend both to any person who is interested in going to sea or who will soon be reporting aboard that first Navy ship.
- For the next decade, he went to sea on various voyages, the longest being several years.
- Women have been going to sea in the RN for 14 years, so the prospect of a female commanding officer of a destroyer or frigate draws ever nearer.
- He went to sea as a cabin boy and cook at the age of 9, and from 1880 worked as a fisherman in Cornwall.
- Phelps, who first went to sea as a cabin boy in 1816, worked from original journals and logbooks now mostly lost.
- And sailors going to sea would take a hot cross bun with them to guard against sickness
- She plans to take over parenting responsibility for her daughter while her husband, who has been working ashore, goes to sea next year.
- To have a Warrant as opposed to a Commission, as NAM Rodgers tells us, derives from the military and governing classes going to sea and therefore symbolised both a social and professional difference.
- This notion has undoubtedly partly arisen because of Doctor Johnson's famous observation that going to sea was akin to being in prison, with the added danger of drowning.
- Their travels grew more exciting as they traveled further every day, as they were welcomed on any ship that went to sea.
Situated on the coast. 在岸边 Example sentencesExamples - Tulum was not a city but rather an outpost on the sea - it may have been a temple, and some suggest it also may have been an ancient lighthouse.
- Today I was able to sleep in, and after lunch, I borrowed Bin's car and drove to Narbonne, a town on the sea.
- Unless we can find a place on the sea, that takes pets, for the same price, we won't be moving.
Leave land on a voyage. 出海航行 Example sentencesExamples - None of the planned projects is offshore, however, although in Europe, where suitable land is scarce, more and more projects are putting out to sea.
- In Camara de Lobos, where Winston Churchill spent his leisure time painting, I watched craggy fishermen putting out to sea in red, yellow and blue-striped boats that dot the horseshoe beach.
- He puts to sea again and lands at Mytilene, where through Lysimachus and to his intense joy Pericles discovers his daughter.
- I joined her in Kalkan for a cruise to Olympos, putting out to sea on a glorious October morning, the sun scorching hot on the scrubbed wooden deck and the water as blue as a kingfisher's back.
- Fishing is still an important activity in the area and one can sit for hours watching fishermen putting out to sea in unfeasibly flimsy wooden craft.
- ‘Won't catch me putting out to sea with that berk,’ Dave said.
- Can anyone imagine the Yankee traders of the 19th century allowing OSHA agents to inspect their clipper ships to inform them that their safety precautions for putting out to sea were not up to code?
Synonyms set sail, put to sea, put out, put out to sea, leave port, leave dock, leave harbour, hoist sail, raise sail, weigh anchor, put off, shove off
OriginOld English sǣ, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zee and German See. |