| 单词 | land-sick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland-sick land-sick adj. (a) sick for the sight of land; (b) Nautical (of a ship) impeded in its movements by being close to land; (c) sick of being on the land; (d) sick as a result of being on land again after a long sea voyage. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] > sick of being on the land land-sick1846 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > types of nausea dead-sick1535 seasicka1566 airsick1785 travel sick1833 land-sick1846 trainsick1896 carsick1908 space-sick1912 1846 H. Melville Typee i. (heading) A land-sick ship. 1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters 219 I could understand any land~sick lad longing for a sea-life if he once heard this ballast-throwing song. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/1 The joy of the land-sick sailors who cried, ‘The sea, the sea!’ 1908 Daily Chron. 10 June 4/4 It was very curious, that first step ashore... I was thoroughly land-sick. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Let. 5 Sept. (1962) II. 714 We were twenty-five days at sea and are still landsick—the floor ought to go up and down, the room ought to tremble from the engines, the water ought to swish around but doesn't, so one is landsick. The solid ground almost hurts. 1924 D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner Boy in Bush 19 Jack was a little tired and a little land-sick, after the long voyage. < as lemmas |
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