coast

1 They came in to port at Orrimy on the east shore of the great land Hosk, for these trade-galleys of the Inmost Sea keep to the coasts and lie overnight in harbor whenever they can.

2 “Why were you forced to flee your island after your house was bombed? And why did you run into the woods instead of following the coast?”

3 From Durban I drove south along the coast past Port Shepstone and Port St. Johns, small and lovely colonial towns that dotted the shimmering beaches fronting the Indian Ocean.

4 There had been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy about yachting—and an account of the luxurious modern house he had built on this little island off the Devon coast.

5 The downpour pursued them to the coast, where they pitched the tent that night, and persisted through the whole week, through sodden landscapes that Harry found bleak and depressing.

6 Grandma points out where Incheon is on the west coast of South Korea.

7 By the last centuries B.C. the advancing Bantu had reached the East African coast.

8 The storm rolled onto the coast with all the implacable power of an old-world tank.

9 Cape Coast Castle was the grandest of the slave emporiums, at the centre of the trade.

海岸角的奴隶城堡当时最大的奴隶交易中心, 这里算得上是奴隶贸易的中心.

10 Just then, twenty, thirty gulls rose from somewhere on the island coast and turned to face the sea breeze, screeching like broken promises.

11 In contrast, the Americas had only one species of big domestic mammal, the llama / alpaca, confined to a small area of the Andes and the adjacent Peruvian coast.

12 After following the coast for several hours, Nhamo believed that she had reached the true shore and not another island.

13 "Going to coast for a bit," Beck said.

14 We check for the coast to be clear.

15 I pounced on it, jumped up, saw that I wasn’t covered, and took off, ran that baby coast to coast, Abby screaming but nobody laying a finger on me.

16 But Mary, she said, the tualapi destroyed a village further up the coast, and then another and another.

17 The howling winds were driving them straight toward the rocky coast.

18 Now, 60,000 Japanese Americans were returning to their former communities on the west coast and being put into trailer camps, Quonset huts, back rooms of private homes, church social halls, anywhere they could fit.

19 Within a few centuries, in one of the swiftest colonizing advances of recent prehistory, Bantu farmers had swept all the way to Natal, on the east coast of what is now South Africa.

20 He rested his paddle on his lap, coasting, trying to place the pets he’d heard crying in the dark.

1 沿岸航行

coasting cabotage

2 绕…而行

circumambulate compass

3 移动

moving locomotive movement motion removal locomotion play move travel touch wham blow down

4 飘飘然

happy

5 斜坡

side fall bank hill ramp slant brae

6 惯性飞行

coasting flight

7 斜面

oblique bevelled grade slope incline inclination slant bevel talus splay cant

8 海岸

coastal seashore seaboard seaside tidewater shore the seashore sea coast board sea board sea front sea shore littoral wharf seacoast rivage sea foreland sea bank

9 感到飘飘然

wig

10 滑翔

gliding sailing glide soar volplane

11 滑道

slide runner runway chute

12 滑降

downhill run glissade

13 惯性滑行

freewheeling

14 沿岸

inshore coastal littoral longshore coastwise neritic onshore alongshore bank

15 滑行

slide glide plane skid slip ghost slither power slide taxi slippage slithery freewheel gliding glissement run swim sliding skim reptate

16 沿海地区

shore seaboard littoral coastland

17 滑雪

ski

18 一帆风顺

free walkover roses all the way

19 边境

frontier mark border march confine outfield borderland marchland

20 山坡

side climb hillside sidehill brae versant

21 海滨

strand seaside oceanfront waterside littoral beach seashore front seaboard foreshore beachfront plage rivage sea board sea shore sea coast seacoast

22 边疆

frontier

23 靠惯性滑行

freewheel coasting

24 下坡

declivitous declivous downward downhill downgrade decline descent