| 释义 |
alongshore, advb. phr. Naut.|əˈlɒŋˈʃɔə(r)|
[f. along prep. + shore.]
1. Along by the shore; on the water ‘in a course which is in sight of the shore and nearly parallel to it.’ Adm. Smyth.
1779T. Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 50 In steering along-shore, the island..that makes the harbour, may be easily perceived. 1849Grote Greece (1862) V. ii. lvii. 118 The Syracusans..rowed close along-shore. Ibid., Seamanship was of no avail in this along-shore fighting.
2. Along and on the shore. (See the aphetic 'long-shore.) |