ocean是什么意思？

ocean

英[ˈəʊʃn] 美[ˈoʊʃn]

• n. 洋，海洋，大海，（地球上划分出的）洋；

复数：oceans;

例句

• the unbounded ocean 无边无际的海洋
• The damaged ship leaned over and slowly settled down on the ocean floor. 被毁坏的轮船开始倾斜, 然后慢慢地沉入海底。
• Several ocean-going ships are being laid down here. 这里正在建造几艘远洋货轮。
• The grey ocean seethed beneath them. 灰蒙蒙的大海在他们下面翻滚。
• The great ship ploughed across the ocean. 巨轮在大洋中破浪前进。
• The mountains trap rains and fogs generated over the ocean. 这些山脉隔开了海洋上生成的雨和雾。
• One afternoon, she went for a swim in the ocean. 一天下午她到海里去游泳。
• the cliffs which rise majestically from the ocean 巍然耸立在海上的悬崖
• Ocean waves are gradually eating away the coastal rocks. 海浪正在慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• An individual is only a tiny grain in the vast sea;it is the masses of people that are the boundless ocean. 个人只是沧海的一粟,人民群众才是无垠的大海。

同义词

• n.
  ocean的同义词之：大量,许多
  ton, slew, stack, pile, mountain, heap, trillion, multitude, flood, million, profusion, mint, abundance,
  ocean的同义词之：海
  brine, Neptune, sea, the,

同义词解析

• 以下这两个名词均可表示"海，海洋" 的意思
  sea：普通用词，可用复数形式表单数意义。sea所指的面积要比ocean小得多。sea也可是ocean的一部分。
  ocean：指把海作为一个整体，是海洋的总称，不可数名词，指大洋时是可数名词。

英语四级真题

The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文

英语六级真题

The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage (预示) droughts and fires in the rain forest.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
The unusual warm currents in the Pacific Ocean
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.
出自-2010年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-SING
  海洋；大海
  The ocean is the sea.
  例句
  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。
• N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES
  （五大洋之一的）洋
  An ocean is one of the five very large areas of sea on the Earth's surface.
  例句
  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
• N-COUNT
  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.
  例句
  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。
• PHRASE
  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.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  洋, 海洋, 大海
  One afternoon, she went for a swim in the ocean. 一天下午她到海里去游泳。
  (地球上划分出的)洋
  As we've seen, oceans cover more than 70％ of the earth. 据我们所知, 海洋占地球面积的70％以上。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
  2. anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

行业词典

• 地理学： 洋；
  海洋科学： 洋；