| 单词 | grand fleet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGrand Fleet Grand Fleet n. British (now historical) (a) (during the 18th cent.) the fleet based at Spithead; (b) (during the period 1914–16) the British Battle Fleet operating in the North Sea. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] fleeta1000 floteOE ship-ferda1122 navya1382 armyc1475 armada1533 class1596 naval1627 armadilla1685 Grand Fleet1696 armament1698 maritime power1711 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > specific fleet armada1588 flote1673 flota1690 Home Fleet1705 home guard1712 Channel Fleet1741 Grand Fleet1914 1696 W. Cockburn Acct. Distempers Seafaring People i. 6 If we consider the number of men, the length of the Voyages, in Convoys and Cruisers, the Grand Fleet in the Channel, and their Work. 1702 Hist. Wks. Learned Nov. 702 An Impartial Account of all the material Transactions of the Grand Fleet, and Land Forces; from their first setting out from Spithead, June the 29th..1702. 1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 119 Impressed Men, who were all put on board the Winchester..and carried to the grand Fleet then lying at Spithead. 1781 Ld. Nelson 5 Mar. in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 40 I am sorry the wind hangs so much Western board, as it must hinder the sailing of the Grand Fleet. 1914 J. R. Jellicoe in Times 16 Sept. 8/6 The officers and men of the Grand Fleet beg that you will convey to their comrades of the British Army their intense admiration for the magnificent fight they have made. 1919 J. R. Jellicoe Grand Fleet 1914–16 iii. 34 The Grand Fleet may be said to have come into being only at the outbreak of the War, when it was so christened. 1966 A. J. Marder From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow III. vi. 207 The moral ascendancy of the Grand Fleet over the High Seas Fleet remained and, if anything, was stronger. 2013 C. Kennedy Narr. Revol. & Napoleonic Wars vii. 173 William Cobbett, recollecting the first time he saw the grand fleet anchored at Spithead. < as lemmas |
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