核心畫面

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.

可以想成那片包圍著陸地、又鹹又深的廣大水域——一望無際、看不到邊。其他用法多半是借走這個畫面的兩種感覺:一是「大到看更多收起可以想成那片包圍著陸地、又鹹又深的廣大水域——一望無際、看不到邊。其他用法多半是借走這個畫面的兩種感覺:一是「大到看不到盡頭」,二是「漂在裡面、找不到岸」。

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.

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)

原始詞典資料18 筆記錄

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

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A hamlet in Ilminster parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3413).

Seaname詞源 2

  • 1

    Synonym of Mediterranean Sea.

seanoun/siː/

  • 1

    A large body of salt water.

    • God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
  • 2

    A large body of salt water.

    • These ſhal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatſoeuer hath finnes and ſcales in the waters, in the ſeas, and in the riuers, them ſhall ye eate.
    • At length the universal Wreck appear'd,/ To Cæsar's self, ev'n worthy to be fear'd./ Why all these Pains, this Toil of Fate (he cries)/ This Labour of the Seas, and Earth, and Skies?/ All Nature, and the Gods at once alarm'd,/ Against my little Boat and me are arm'd.
  • 3

    A large body of salt water.

    • The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.
  • 4

    A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

    • The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.
  • 5

    A single wave; billow.

    • One ſea broke away the ſpare yards and ſpars out of the ſtarboard main chains. Another heavy ſea broke into the ſhip and ſtove all the boats. Several caſks of beer, that had been laſhed upon deck, were broke looſe and waſhed overboard, and it was not without great difficulty and riſk that we were able to ſecure the boats from being waſhed away entirely.
    • 'If they buy three cords of birch logs,' said the witch, 'but they must be exact measure—and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the second sea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the third sea comes, then it's all over with us.'
  • 6

    The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.

    • “Where can they be?” he cried. “They cannot have gone down, for there has been no sea, and they were afloat after the yacht sank—I saw them all.”
    • There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.
  • 7

    Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.

    • Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.
  • 8

    Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.

    • To be, or not to be, that is the queſtion, / Whether tis nobler in the minde to ſuffer / The ſlings and arrowes of outragious fortune, / Or to take Armes againſt a ſea of troubles, / And by oppoſing, end them, to die to ſleepe / No more, and by a ſleepe, to ſay we end / The hart-ake, and the thouſand naturall ſhocks / That fleſh is heire to; […]
    • Secondly, in terms of geopolitics Central Asia was a huge sea of barbarians set in the midst of interlocking continents. Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.

  • 10

    astronomynatural-sciencesplanetologyA large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

    • The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.
  • 11

    astronomynatural-sciencesplanetologyA very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。