She likes to stand on the headland to watch the ships. 她喜欢站在海岬上,观看船只。
A high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water; a headland. 岬,海角伸出到水体中的陆地或岩石的高脊;岬或海角
The fleet lay at anchor half a mile off the headland. 舰队在离山岬半英里处抛锚停泊。
headland
[ noun ] a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) <noun.object>
Headland \Head"land\ (h[e^]d"l[a^]nd), n. 1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. ``Sow the headland with wheat.'' --Shak.
2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. --Tusser.
REMOTE and ancient, it rises out of the sea, in the shadow of the 1,500 ft peak of Roineval on the south east corner of Harris - a rocky headland like thousands in the Scottish Hebrides. But Lingarabay point is not the same as all the others.
As then, the first fire was lit at Kynance, a headland near Lizard village in the southwest tip of Cornwall, where local people say the Armada was first sighted sailing up the English Channel in 1588.
The event was shown live on national TV as the ambassador lit the fuel in a big iron brazier atop an oak pole at the Kynance headland.