littoral
littoral 英 [ˈlɪtərəl] 美 [ˈlɪtərəl]
adj. 沿海的；海滨的 n. 沿海地区（等于litora）
名词复数:littorals
- Anything littoral has to do with a coast or shore. A littoral state has a coast, so Florida, California, and North Carolina are littoral states, to name a few.
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- adj. 沿海的；海滨的
- n. 沿海地区（等于litora）
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1. Yet its ships sometimes treat the sea as a Chinese lake; its maps show a great lolling tongue of Chinese sovereignty stuck insolently out at the South-East Asian littoral states.
有时候中国的船只已经将这片海域当作自己的一个湖泊了；中国的地图上一个垂下的舌尖，显示着中国的主权傲慢地伸向东南亚的沿海国家。
- littoral (adj.) "pertaining to the seashore," 1650s, from Latin littoralis "of or belonging to the seashore," from litus (genitive litoris) "seashore, coast, seaside, beach, strand," from Proto-Italic *leitos, a word of unknown origin, possibly from PIE root *lei- "to flow" [Watkins], but de Vaan finds a better candidate in the PIE root *leit- (2) "to go forth" (see lead (v.1)), with sense evolution "the going away," hence "the edge."
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