| 单词 | upon sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupon sea 14. on the sea (also upon the sea). (In early use on sea or upon sea.) extracted from sean. a. On the sea's surface, afloat, at sea, on shipboard. In Old English also: = in the sea. ΚΠ c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. xiii. 48 We..oððe sticode beoð oððe on sæ adruncene. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 877 Þa mette hie micel yst on sæ. a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 94 For hwi ne fixast þu on sæ. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13296 Þatt iss to farenn upp o sæ. To fisskenn affterr fisskess. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 9795 Colgrim had a broþer on þe se. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 48 Þorow losse on þe se. a1400–50 Alexander 83 For he him-self is on þe se with siche a somme armed. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 327 I fled in to Spayn to Alaffre vpon the see. 1560 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1897) II. 25 The marrynors..in eny ship or vessel laboring and travayling upon the seaes. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 711 The Bastard..made sayle with all haste, and roued on the Sea, as before he was accustomed. 1861 W. Whiting in W. H. Monk Hymns Anc. & Mod. ccxxii O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea. b. Of a dwelling, etc.: at the sea's edge, on the sea-coast. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adverb] by seac1275 by the seac1275 on the sea1832 sublittorally1902 mid-coast1976 1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xvi, in Poems (new ed.) 74 In a clearwalled city on the sea. < as lemmas |
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