| 释义 |
up-ˈchannel, adv. and a.
[up prep.2 2.]
(Moving, leading, etc.) towards the upper end of a channel.
1893Kipling Seven Seas (1896) 4 Go, get you gone up-Channel with the sea-crust on your plates. 1898Daily News 17 Oct. 5/4 There was a nice up Channel breeze. 1925Belloc Cruise of ‘Nona’ 135 Anyone going up-Channel makes for the lighthouse..for this shortens an up-Channel course. 1936E. G. Bowen in H. C. Darby Hist. Geogr. Eng. i. 24 The up-Channel shift of the important trade routes. 1954― Settlement Celtic Saints in Wales ii. 45 Llanilltud..and Nant Carban..are..conveniently well up-Channel to provide an easy crossing. |