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。

英语六级真题

Earlier this year, British explorer  Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill ( ' , 磷虾), found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.

Efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries failed because of Russia's obstruction.

Way up north in the Canadian Arctic, seabirds are picking up dangerous chemicals in the ocean and delivering them to ponds near where the birds live.

The pollutants in the ponds appear to come from fish that fulmars eat when they’re out on the ocean.

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.

The unusual warm currents in the Pacific Ocean

It sits firmly on solid rock at the bottom of the ocean.

The West Antarctic region was once an open ocean

They found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean not solid ice.

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.

A global campaign has been launched to create a network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the seas in the region and Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to fishing in areas being considered for sanctuary status.

A global campaign has been launched to turn a huge tract of Antarctic seas into ocean sanctuaries, protecting wildlife and banning not just krill fishing, but all fishing.

As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front - an upward movement of nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life - is being pushed further south. This means that king penguins, which feed on fish and krill in th

But its surface has been cooked and dried by an ocean of carbon dioxide, trapped in the burning death grip of a runaway greenhouse effect.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

Frida Bengtsson from Greenpeace's Protect the Antarctic campaign said: "If the krill industry wants to show it’s a responsible player, then it should be voluntarily getting out of any area which is being proposed as an ocean sanctuary, and should instead

Island communities have been among the hardest hit by the threats facing the ocean, said President Tommy Remengesau Jr. in a statement.

Keith Reid, a science manager at CCAMLR, said that the organisation sought "a balance between protection, conservation and sustainable fishing in the Southern Ocean".

king penguins are the second-largest type of penguin and only breed on specific isolated islands in the Southern Ocean where there is no ice cover and easy access to the sea.

Only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean are suitable for sustaining large breeding colonies.

We want to lead the way in restoring the health of the ocean for future generations.

We're looking at roughly 80 percent loss of ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in 10 years, roughly 10 years, and 100 percent loss in nearly 20 years.

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

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

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.

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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

英汉词典释义

n.

洋, 海洋, 大海

(地球上划分出的)洋

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；