marine
marine 英 [məˈri:n] 美 [məˈrin]
adj. 海的；海洋的
名词复数:marines
- If it has to do with the ocean or sea, you can call it marine. Your friend in US Armed Services who is a Marine probably spends a lot of time near the ocean.
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- adj. 海的；海洋的
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1. marine life
海洋生物
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2. a marine biologist (= a scientist who studies life in the sea)
海洋生物学家
- marine (adj.) early 15c., "pertaining to the sea," from Middle French marin, from Old French marin "of the sea, maritime," from Latin marinus "of the sea," from mare "sea, the sea, seawater," from PIE root *mori- "body of water." The Old English word was sælic.
- marine (n.) 14c., "seacoast;" see marine (adj.). Meaning "collective shipping of a country" is from 1660s. Meaning "soldier who serves on a ship" is from 1670s, a separate borrowing from French marine, from the French adjective. Phrase tell that to the marines (1806) originally was the first half of a retort expressing skepticism:
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