英语单词 | shoreline |
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英美音标 | 英 ['ʃɔːlaɪn] 美 ['ʃɔːrlaɪn] |
中文释义 | n.海岸线;沿海地带 |
英语例句 | (1) The waves battered against the shoreline. (2) The road follows the shoreline for a few miles. |
中文例句 | (1) 浪头拍击着海岸线。 (2) 公路沿海岸线逶迤而行几英里。 |
vocabulary简明 | The shoreline is the place where a large body of water, like an ocean, lake, or river, meets the land. There are a lot of fun beaches along the Atlantic shoreline. |
vocabulary扩展 | You can use the noun shoreline to talk about the strip that marks the boundary between land and water, whether it's at the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river. While the word "coast" refers specifically to the ocean, shoreline or shore can be used for any body of water. The word was first coined in the mid-1800's by geographers, and its root is the Germanic schor, "shore, coast, or headland." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]海岸线;湖滨线;河岸线 A shoreline is the edge of a sea, lake, or wide river. |
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