| 单词 | pacific ocean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPacific Ocean 1. Designating the largest of the world's oceans, situated between North and South America to the east and Asia and Australasia to the west; now chiefly in Pacific Ocean. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Pacific Ocean South Sea1553 Pacific Ocean1568 Pacific1774 1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyage rounde Worlde in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 220v The sayde sea cauled Pacificum [It. mar Pacifico] (that is) peaceable.] 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lxii. 99 The sea pacifick or peaceable or the sea of Magellan. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1635) 387 Is the Pacifique Sea my home? Or are The Easterne riches? 1647 J. Hall Poems 65 It may..In th' Pacifique Sea supply The winde that Nature doth deny. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 332 The great pacifick gulph, which may be said one of the calmest Seas of the world. 1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 29 Oct. 2/1 Extending in Longitude from the North or Atlantick Ocean, unto the Pacifick or South-Sea. 1784 J. Cook Voy. Pacific Ocean II. iii. xii. 221 The islands in the Pacific Ocean, which our late voyages have added to the geography of the globe. 1844 E. S. Wortley Ernest Mountjoy ii. i. 58 I an't at all sure, Peter, my Second Self is not drowned in the great Pacific Ocean! 1868 B. J. Lossing Pictorial Field-bk. War of 1812 xxxii. 724 The terrible voyage from the stormy Atlantic around the dark cape into the Pacific Sea. 1927 Morning Post 19 Aug. 7 The Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii is being combed to-day by aircraft and shipping for signs of the two 'planes. 1998 UFO Mag. Jan. 47/4 The Pacific Ocean's temperature has now risen a further five degrees. < as lemmas |
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