| 单词 | great belt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGreat Belt 6. Geography. Applied to each of several straits connecting the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat: esp. (a) Great Belt: the strait lying between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen; (b) Little Belt: the strait lying between Jutland and the Danish island of Funen. Cf. sound n.1 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > specific strait Hellespont1596 Magellan1596 Magellan straits1613 phare1615 the Sounda1643 belt1644 fare1653 Magellanic Straits1690 1644 J. Avery Lett. from Hamborough 4 We are now lying here in the Dorpes about the King of Denmarks Foot, which lyes in a retrenched Leaguer on this side of the Belt, over against Middleford in Funen. 1670 R. Manley Hist. Late Warres in Denmark ii. 74 The Great and Little Belt, and all other Passages into the Baltick Sea. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Belts, in navigation, denote certain streights near the sound, thro' which ships must pass going between the Baltic and the German ocean. 1801 Monthly Mag. 12 108/2 Assens is a small town lying on the Little Belt, chiefly inhabited by fishermen. 1874 W. S. Cooke Armed Strength Denmark Pref. p. vi The establishments on the Great Belt will facilitate the transport of troops between Seeland and Fünen. 1906 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth II. iii. x. 426 With a rapid rise the sea rushed through the belt of Fehmarn. 1986 Courier-Mail (Nexis) 20 Sept. You reach Funen over a long graceful bridge from Esbjerg and Jutland in the west. It spans water the Danes call the Little Belt. 2007 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 5 Denmark's three major waterways of the Sound, the Great Belt and the Little Belt. < as lemmas |
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