ocean
ocean 英 [ˈəʊʃn] 美 [ˈoʊʃn]
n. 海洋；
名词复数:oceans
- You know that vast, wet expanse of blue that keeps crashing waves on the beach? That's the ocean.
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- n. 海洋；
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1. the Atlantic Ocean
太平洋
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2. the depths of the ocean
海洋的深处
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3. an ocean liner
远洋客轮
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4. Ocean levels are rising.
海平面正在上升。
- ocean (n.) late 13c., from Old French occean "ocean" (12c., Modern French océan), from Latin oceanus, from Greek okeanos, the great river or sea surrounding the disk of the Earth (as opposed to the Mediterranean), of unknown origin. Personified as Oceanus, son of Uranus and Gaia and husband of Tethys. In early times, when the only known land masses were Eurasia and Africa, the ocean was an endless river that flowed around them. Until c. 1650, commonly ocean sea, translating Latin mare oceanum. Application to individual bodies of water began 14c.; there are usually reckoned to be five of them, but this is arbitrary; also occasionally applied to smaller subdivisions, such as German Ocean "North Sea."
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