| 单词 | to keep the sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep the sea d. In a more or less pregnant use, with reference to naval operations, the shipping trade, the profession or employment of a sailor, life on shipboard, etc. to keep the sea: to prevent the enemy from occupying it, to keep it clear for one's own ships and traffic. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [verb (intransitive)] > maintain naval power to keep the sea1338 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [noun] > naval affairs sea1556 sea-affairs1633 society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > sea-affairs sea1556 sea-affairs1633 society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] sea1745 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 161 Bernard of Bayoun, þat was kepand þe se [Fr. ke la mer gardait]. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 278 He woolde the see weere kept for any thyng Bitwixen Myddelburgh and Orewelle. 1414 26 Pol. Poems xiii. 108 Whanne ȝe han made pes wiþynne,..Strengþe ȝoure marche, and kepe þe see. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 18 Thys yere the lorde Talbot..was made..amyralle of the see. 1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 306 Gif thow beis ane marchand man, And wynnis thy living be the see. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 182 To be Master of the Sea, is an Abridgement of a Monarchy. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxix. 184 The Command of the Seas. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 121 Who did not think that the Fleet could have been so soon ready for Sea. 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 178 Without the assistance of the sea, the best dispositions in Italy are useless. 1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 9 His Friends..put him on board a Man of War, but neither the Sea, nor any settled Employ agreeing with his wandering Inclinations, he soon forsook the King's Service. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. v. 447 The antient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea . View more context for this quotation 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 302 As soon as he came back from sea he was made Colonel of a regiment of foot. 1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Mar. 304/1 We are afraid that few Englishmen at present claim the sovereignty of the seas for their country. < as lemmas |
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