| 单词 | the channel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Channel b. the Channel: spec. the English Channel.English Channel first occurs at around the same time: cf. quot. 1589. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > English Channel South SeaOE mid-channel1518 sleeve1574 the Channel1588 silver streak1879 1588 Packe of Spanish Lyes 9 Hee came to the Channell, sixe leagues from Plimmouth: where vnderstanding the enemies were, hee gathered together and set in order all the fleete. 1589 Declar. Causes Arrest of Shippes 11 They couenanted in plaine words, with the shipmasters, that they should not passe into Spaine & Portingall through the English Chanel & vsuall way.] 1633 Earl of Strafford Let. 7 Sept. (1739) I. 109 We may no more admit this Course of Prize taking, to the disquieting the Trades of His Majesty's Subjects here in the Channel, than in the River of Thames. 1694 London Gaz. No. 2961/1 The Weymouth..left the rest of the homeward bound..Fleet..off the Lizard, making up the Channel. 1711 Atlas Geographus II. 1071/1 The Port [sc. Brest] is much frequented by French Privateers, who infest the Channel in Time of War. 1762 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. VII. 265 They passed through Lorrain into France, from thence crossed the channel into England, and made Holland the last stage of their travels. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. vi. 70 Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands across the Channel, and saluted mutually. 1877 Judy 26 Dec. 112/1 I have not yet swam across the Channel, or bicycled from Paris to Vienna. 1933 Radio Times 14 Apr. 75/1 The war was newly over... There was a tremendous fuss of coming and going across the Channel. 2004 Daily Tel. 13 Aug. 36/1 ‘The Froggies’ were discouraging Britons from taking booze'n'fags cruises across the Channel. < as lemmas |
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