| 单词 | blue water battle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue water battle C1. General attributive, as blue water battle, blue water diving, blue water fishing, blue water navigation, blue water sailor, etc. ΚΠ 1862 E. A. Duyckinck Nat. Portrait Gallery Eminent Americans 66 Home defence..exacted many a rebellious oath from the blue water sailors, condemned to rust in harbor. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 445/1 There came a desire for blue-water cruising and for longer voyages. 1898 Daily News 29 Mar. 3/2 The blue water torpedo-boats. 1905 Daily Chron. 13 May 4/3 It is quite likely that no such blue-water battle..may take place. 1940 Maryland: Guide to Old Line State (Federal Writers' Project) i. 116 The course, a distance of approximately 475 miles, gives a fair taste of blue water sailing. 1974 Pop. Sci. Oct. 166/3 I believe the methods we're using..will be standard in blue-water fishing in a few years. 1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen-gun Salute i. 9 Some had originally come from blue-water privateers. 1992 Sci. Amer. Oct. 98/3 They had no sails nor blue-water navigation skills beyond expert pilotage. 2010 Observer 1 Aug. (Mag.) 44/1 A blue-water dive is extremely scary. < as lemmas |
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