喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the strip of land where water stops and ground begins — sand, , or rock, with washing up onto it. 'Shore' is that edge seen from the land or from a boat: the line you walk along, or the line you are heading for.

可以想成水停住、陸地開始的那一條帶狀地：沙、石頭或岩壁，浪一波波打上來。shore 就是這個交界——你在上面散步的那…更多收起可以想成水停住、陸地開始的那一條帶狀地：沙、石頭或岩壁，浪一波波打上來。shore 就是這個交界——你在上面散步的那條線，或是你划著船正要靠過去的那條線。

From the picture

以海岸代稱的國土

從船上看過去，一個國家最先出現的就是它的海岸線；久了那條線就拿來代表整個國家。畫面沒有變，只是視角從「腳下這片沙」拉遠成「遠方那個國度」。

a country's shores · noun · B1

A country, thought of as a land with a coast, especially when people arrive or leave by sea.

國土

Also in this word

coastline · noun · B1

The land right along the edge of a sea, ocean, or lake.

岸

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。

Shorename

  • 1

    A topographic surname from Middle English.

  • 2

    A place in England:

  • 3

    A place in England:

shorenoun詞源 1/ʃɔː/

  • 1

    Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

    • lake shore; bay shore; gulf shore; island shore; mainland shore; river shore; estuary shore; pond shore; sandy shore; rocky shore
    • the fruitful shore of muddy Nile
  • 2

    Land, usually near a port.

    • The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.
    • The passengers signed up for shore tours.

shoreverb詞源 1/ʃɔː/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo arrive at the shore

    • the ship quickened her way, and shot past that rocke, where wee thought shee would have shored.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo put ashore.

    • I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to shore them again

shorenoun詞源 2/ʃɔː/

  • 1

    A prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.

    • The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.

shoreverb詞源 3/ʃɔː/

  • 1

    Not followed by up: to provide (something) with support.

    • If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers.
    • Sometimes it's easier to laminate the strips one at a time, shoring each in place only long enough for the epoxy to set.
  • 2

    Usually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure).

    • My family shored me up after I failed the GED.
    • The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.

shorenoun詞源 5/ʃɔː/

  • 1

    A sewer.

    • Emptie olde receptacles, or common-shores of filthe.
    • I need not mention the old common-shore of Rome.

shoreverb詞源 6/ʃɔː/

  • 1

    archaicTo threaten or warn unpleasant consequences (for someone); (sometimes) to threaten or warn off or scare away.

    • The Gleds might pyked her at the dyke, Before the lads wad shored them off her.
    • Bess flew till him […] and with her fatal Knife shored she would geld him, For peace that day.
  • 2

    archaicTo threaten (to rain).

    • For a' our tears and sighs are but in vain: Come, help me up; — yon sooty cloud shores rain.
    • […] the cauld win' louder blew, Shorin' o' drift,[…]
  • 3

    archaicTo offer or present (someone something).

    • ... a compliment kindly and decently shored, […]

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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。