| 单词 | ocean stream |
| 释义 | > as lemmasocean stream ocean stream n. now rare the great river anciently supposed to encompass the earth (cf. sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > specific rivers > [noun] > stream supposed to encompass the earth ocean stream1596 ocean-river1902 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. Q3 The blushing Sunne,..making his steeds to mend theyr wonted pace, Till plunging downe into the Ocean Streames. 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars vi. xlix. 138 The Sunne, with his day-labouring teames Is dryuing..T' refresh his cauples in the Ocean streames. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 111 Yet the wizard her..Forces to unchain the foodful progeny Of the Ocean stream. 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 190 At last unto the utmost of deep Ocean-stream we came. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. V. xvii. 55 Erst, in the Curia, a naval crown, Rome's Senate Decreed to Claudius; who Gaul's Ocean Stream had sent under the yoke! < as lemmas |
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