英语单词 | landfall |
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英美音标 | 英 ['lændfɔːl] 美 ['lændfɔːl] |
中文释义 | n.初见陆地;到达陆地;登陆;着陆 |
英语例句 | (1) We made a landfall at dusk after three weeks at sea. (2) After three weeks crossing the Atlantic,they made landfall on the coast of Ireland. |
中文例句 | (1) 在海上航行三周后的一个黄昏,我们看到了陆地。 (2) 经过三个星期横跨大西洋的航行,他们登上了爱尔兰的海岸。 |
vocabulary简明 | Landfall is the first glimpse of land when you're on a boat. It can also mean the moment your boat touches the shore, like when your kayak makes landfall on a remote island. |
vocabulary扩展 | If you're traveling at sea, arriving at your destination is landfall. A child paddling a rowboat across a pond makes landfall when she reaches the far shore, and the captain of an ocean liner makes landfall at each remote stop on the route. A sailor might call out, "Landfall!" at the first sight of land on the horizon. The word landfall uses the sense of fall that means "happen." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]着陆;登陆;到达的陆地 Landfall is the act of arriving somewhere after a journey at sea, or the land that you arrive at.
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