| 单词 | continental shelf |
| 释义 | continental shelf (once / 5071 pages) n WORD FAMILY continental shelf: continental shelves USAGE EXAMPLESBut the press corps is rushing to euphemize Mr. Obama’s “creative” interpretation of a “rarely used” provision of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016) Mr. Obama used authority a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law, to ban the drilling. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) They point to President George W. Bush, who in July 2008 lifted some executive bans on Outer Continental Shelf leasing and drilling. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) n the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent Hyper Davy Jones, Davy Jones's locker, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea floor, seabed the bottom of a sea or ocean |
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