| 单词 | naval station |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnaval station a. Originally: a port, harbour, or roadstead for ships. Now chiefly: a place at which ships of a nation's navy are regularly stationed, or may dock for repair, refuelling, etc. Also more fully naval station.With naval use, compare uses in the other armed forces at sense 3. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] hithec725 havenOE port1340 stationa1382 harbourc1405 haveningc1425 piera1552 harbourage1850 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action, fact, or opportunity of anchoring > place of anchorage > roadstead > specific stationa1382 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > naval station naval station1615 admiralty1677 naval base1863 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xlix. 13 Ȝabulon in þe brynk of þe see schall dwell, & in þe stacyon of schippes [L. in statione navium]. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. L.viv The Ilande of Melcha,..in which is sayde to be great ryches, & the stacion of restinge place of all shippes comming from the goulfe Gangeticus. 1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 5 The Station of the Grand-Nauy-Royall. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 The ruines [of Troy]..are..too neare the navall station to affoord a field for such dispersed encounters. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1677 (1955) IV. 115 The bedding being soft mudd, it is safe for ships, & a station. 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) i. iii. 15 At Chatham is a Station for the Navy-Royal. 1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade Hope, a station for ships in the mouth of the river Thames, below Gravesend. 1813 J. A. Cummings Introd. Anc. & Mod. Geogr. 10 The land poor, and of no great value to the nation, but as a station for ships. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 534/1 Portsmouth, a municipal and parliamentary borough, seaport, and naval station of Hampshire. 1907 T. D. Seymour Life in Homeric Age xvii. 526 Limestone cliffs more than one hundred feet in height, affording no station for ships. 1918 H. H. Powers Amer. among Nations xv. 236 A naval and maritime state must have its stations scattered through the seven seas. 2004 D. Fitz-Enz Old Ironsides iii. 61 The need for naval stations and friendly ports for sea power is still of paramount importance to national goals. < as lemmas |
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