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 ocean ['oʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 海洋, 广阔, 许多, 一大片

[法] 海洋, 海




    ocean
    [ noun ]
    1. a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

      2. <noun.object>
    2. anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

      3. <noun.quantity>


    Ocean \O"cean\ ([=o]"shan), n. [F. oc['e]an, L. oceanus, Gr.
    'wkeano`s ocean, in Homer, the great river supposed to
    encompass the earth.]
    1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three
    fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the
    {sea}, or {great sea}.

    Like the odor of brine from the ocean
    Comes the thought of other years. --Longfellow.

    2. One of the large bodies of water into which the great
    ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific,
    Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

    3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without
    apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an
    ocean of affairs. --Locke.

    You're gonna need an ocean
    Of calamine lotion. --Lieber &
    Stoller
    (Poison Ivy:
    song lyrics,
    1994)
    [PJC]


    Ocean \O"cean\ ([=o]"shan), a.
    Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean
    waves; an ocean stream. --Milton.

    1. Hurricanes gain their strength from the energy transferred from the warm ocean waters to the air and clouds above.
    2. Every six seconds a half-dozen air guns fire into the water, sending a deep "thud" penetrating up to 20 kilometers into the ocean floor and bouncing back to the ship's electronic ears.
    3. Rescue divers watched helplessly from the ocean's surface as a 12-foot shark fed on the body of a scuba diver who had failed to return from an outing the night before.
    4. Kim said the flow had no direct path toward the ocean without cutting through populated areas.
    5. South Carolina today banned shellfish harvesting and warned against swimming in the ocean and rivers, saying Hurricane Hugo had left waters choked with sewage.
    6. Activist Kelly Quirke said Greenpeace was protesting "a fossil-fuel energy policy that is not only destroying the ocean but the atmosphere." The Valdez will be moved to dry dock after an underwater survey of damage.
    7. While the quick about-face isn't causing Japanese investors to lose any sleep, some on the other side of the ocean watch with furrowed brows.
    8. Today, 75% of U.S. ocean merchandise trade with the rest of the world is hauled in big containers instead of in all those crates, tubs, sacks and boxes used in 1955.
    9. It draws cold, germ-free water from a depth of 2,200 feet to grow everything from strawberries to giant clams, and studies ocean thermal energy conversion _ using temperature differences between surface and deep water to generate electricity.
    10. At times, they look as if they had grown wings, at others, as if they were gamboling in the ocean.
    11. Fisher estimates there are at least another $100 million worth of artifacts from the Atocha remaining on the ocean floor.
    12. That movement is what leads to the death of the storms, Bleck went on, cutting off their fuel supply either by moving them over land or over cooler ocean waters where there is less evaporation to provide them a supply of water.
    13. The tremor registered about 5.8 on the Richter scale at 1:42 a.m. AST and was centered beneath the ocean 20 miles northeast of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, said Alec Medbery of the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
    14. He had applied to fly the Atlantic, but was refused because the plane, carrying 330 gallons of gasoline and five gallons of oil, was deemed too heavy to be safe over the ocean.
    15. The quake visibly rolled up the valley, undulating the ground like an ocean wave and making its shock felt as far away as southwestern North Dakota, or more than 600 miles.
    16. "The aid was like a drop in the huge ocean of our needs," said Emanel Cosmovici, head of a Bucharest-based international humanitarian aid organization.
    17. Root's plane fell into the ocean near the Bahamas when it ran out of gas after a six-hour journey.
    18. A sophisticated Navy probe unit will be lowered into the ocean in June, said board accident investigator Ron Schleed.
    19. R.J. Pfeiffer, chairman and chief executive officer, attributed the increased results to strong performances by the company's ocean transportation, property development and management, and investment businesses.
    20. They said the ocean's currents carried the wreckage from the crash site, three miles south of the island.
    21. All week long the authorities of this town of 7,000 have struggled to contain an ocean of roaring motorcycles and tattooed bikers wrapped in enough leather to outfit the women of Chicago with purses.
    22. As the ship comes over the horizon, it is revealed in parts, the top mast first, just as it would be in the ocean.
    23. Every year or two, Winkler adds a "leap second" to the atomic clock's time to compensate for a very slow decrease in the Earth's rotation, which is thrown slightly out of kilter by winds, ocean currents, earthquakes and even melting snow.
    24. Congress is expected to vote next week on compromise legislation to ban disposal of sewage sludge in the ocean by the nation's only remaining ocean dumpers.
    25. Congress is expected to vote next week on compromise legislation to ban disposal of sewage sludge in the ocean by the nation's only remaining ocean dumpers.
    26. But these intrusions can deny public access to the shore, and critics object to spending public money to protect the ocean views of private landowners.
    27. The vice president says he would set a "clear timetable" to cut millions of tons of sulfur-dioxide emissions by the year 2000 to clean up the air, and pledges to end ocean dumping by 1991 to stop beach pollution.
    28. Eight water samples collected near the sunken vessel, 5,000 feet beneath the ocean surface, detected no radiation leakage, said Norway's National Institute of Radiation Protection.
    29. Although between 2bn and 10bn barrels of oil may eventually be found, developing deep-water fields in the harsh conditions of the open ocean is risky and expensive.
    30. What Pilkey and his advocates want is to pull back to give nature a buffer in which to work, even if it means letting homes fall into the ocean.
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