单词 | antarctic sea |
释义 | > as lemmasAntarctic Sea Antarctic Sea n. (originally) †= Southern Ocean n. 1 (obsolete); (later) (the name of) the sea surrounding the Antarctic; the Antarctic Ocean. ΚΠ 1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya i. 12 America an Ilande is included on the East side with the Sea Antartique: On the Weast side with Mare del Sur, or Mare Pacificum. 1583 R. P. tr. P. de la Sierra Second Pt. Myrror of Knighthood ix. 217 The great noise which the valiant Knight heard, was no lesse then that which Fauonio made in the Antartike sea, nigh vunto ye Tartarian coast. 1763 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 34/2 It may also be reasonably supposed, that the interior antarctic sea, abounds less with islands and head lands which would impede the floating ice in its course. 1839 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 9 529 If then but one iceberg in a thousand..transports its fragments, the bottom of the Antarctic Sea..must already be scattered with masses of foreign rock. 1899 C. Hoey tr. J. Verne Antarctic Myst. ii. 16 We have been going these many years..to Tristan d'Acunha, to the Falklands, only taking time anywhere to sell our cargo, and sometimes dipping down into the Antarctic Sea. 1951 R. Carson Sea around Us x. 150 Traversing the North Atlantic, it crosses the equator and continues to the south, there passing between two layers of water that are moving northward from the Antarctic Sea. 2010 G. Karleskint et al. Introd. Marine Biol. (ed. 3) i. 7/2 It was this interest that took his expeditions to the Antarctic Sea. < as lemmas |
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