鹹水水域本身
這一族就是 sea 最直接的字面:實實在在那片鹹水。
the sea (salt water) · noun · A1
The huge area of salt water that lies around and between the land.
海
You can picture sea as the huge, restless body of salt water that wraps around the land — wide, deep, and without an edge. Almost every other meaning borrows one of two feelings from this picture: its sheer vastness, or the sense of being lost in something with no shore in sight.
Four branches
鹹水水域本身
這一族就是 sea 最直接的字面:實實在在那片鹹水。
the sea (salt water) · noun · A1
The huge area of salt water that lies around and between the land.
海
大到看不到盡頭
海最震撼人的一點是「多到、廣到看不完」,這族就是把這份「無邊無際」借去形容別的東西。
a vast spread of similar things · noun · A1
A very large number of people or things that all look similar, spread out in front of you.
一片(人海/…海)
漂在海上、找不到岸
若是人在海中央,四面都是水、看不到陸地,自然會慌、會不知道往哪走——這族借的就是這份「沒有依靠、抓不到方向」。
at sea (confused) · noun · A1
Used in the phrase 'at sea' to say that someone feels confused and is not sure what to do.
不知所措(at sea)
天體上的暗區
古人遠望月球,那些又寬又平的暗色區塊看起來像一片片水域,於是沿用了 sea 這個名字。
a dark area on the Moon or Mars · noun · A1
One of the wide, flat-looking dark areas on the Moon or Mars.
海(月海/火星上的暗區)
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Seaname詞源 1
A surname.
A hamlet in Ilminster parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3413).
Seaname詞源 2
Synonym of Mediterranean Sea.
seanoun/siː/
A large body of salt water.
A large body of salt water.
A large body of salt water.
A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
A single wave; billow.
The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
astronomynatural-sciencesplanetologyA large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
astronomynatural-sciencesplanetologyA very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。