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Ocean Pacific Hundred Blue N Large Amount   [Emphasis

英语单词 ocean
英美音标 英 ['əʊʃn] 美 ['oʊʃn]
中文释义 n.海洋;海量
英语例句 (1) These creatures live in the depth of the Pacific Ocean.
(2) The day's drive still left us a hundred miles short of the ocean.
(3) It's almost impossible to find him in the immense ocean.
(4) We were drifting on the boundless ocean.
(5) The river empties into the ocean .
(6) Don't worry we've got oceans of time.
中文例句 (1) 这些生物生活在太平洋的海底。
(2) 我们整天驱车,但离大海还有100英里。
(3) 在无边无际的海洋中要找到他几乎是不可能的。
(4) 我们在漫无边际的海洋上飘泊。
(5) 这条河流入海洋。
(6) 别担心,我们有的是时间。
vocabulary简明 You know that vast, wet expanse of blue that keeps crashing waves on the beach? That's the ocean.
vocabulary扩展 Atlantic, Pacific, Indian...these are just a few of the big oceans of the world. If Columbus hadn't sailed the ocean blue in 14 hundred ninety-two, America would have never been discovered. Home to sharks, mermaids, sailboats, and tsunami waves, the ocean makes up most of the planet Earth. But you can use ocean to describe anything similarly vast and limitless, like an endless ocean of fans at a rock concert.
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1
[N-SING 单数名词]海洋;大海 The ocean is the sea.
  [the N]
  • There were few sights as beautiful as the calm ocean on a warm night.

    鲜有景致能与温暖夜色下风平浪静的大海媲美。

2
[N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES 名称名词;名称名词](五大洋之一的)洋 An ocean is one of the five very large areas of sea on the Earth's surface.
  • They spent many days cruising the northern Pacific Ocean.

    他们在北太平洋航行了很多天。

  • ...the Indian Ocean.

    印度洋

3
[N-COUNT 可数名词]许多;大量 If you say that there is an ocean of something, you are emphasizing that there is a very large amount of it.
  [N of n]
  [emphasis]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • I had cried oceans of tears...

    我泪流成河。

  • APEC seems be drowning in an ocean of jargon.

    亚太经合组织似乎为一大堆空洞的胡言乱语所淹没。

4
[PHRASE 短语]沧海一粟;九牛一毛 If you say that something is a drop in the ocean, you mean that it is a very small amount which is unimportant compared to the cost of other things or is so small that it has very little effect on something.
  [usu v-link PHR]
  [emphasis]
  • His fee is a drop in the ocean compared with the real cost of broadcasting.

    同播出的实际开支相比较,他那点酬金不过是九牛一毛。

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