beach

英 [bi?t?] 美[bit?]

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復數:?beaches;第三人稱單數:?beaches;過去式:?beached;過去分詞:?beached;現在分詞:?beaching;

beach 海灣

詞源不詳，原義表示小石子。

beach: beach: [16] Beach is a mystery word. When it first turns up, in the dialect of the southeast corner of England, it means ‘shingle’; and since long stretches of the seashore in Sussex and Kent are pebbly, it is a natural extension that the word for ‘shingle’ should come to be used for ‘shore’. Its ultimate source is obscure, but some etymologists have suggested a connection with Old English b?ce or bece ‘stream’ (a relative of English beck [14]), on the grounds that the new meaning could have developed from the notion of the ‘pebbly bed of a stream’.
=> beck
beach (n.): 1530s, "loose, water-worn pebbles of the seashore," probably from Old English b?ce, bece "stream," from Proto-Germanic *bakiz. Extended to loose, pebbly shores (1590s), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning "pebbles worn by the waves." French grève shows the same evolution. Beach ball first recorded 1940; beach bum first recorded 1950.
beach (v.): "to haul or run up on a beach," 1840, from beach (n.). Related: Beached; beaching.

1. For a beach resort with a difference, try Key West.: 如果想去一個與眾不同的海濱度假勝地，那就去基韋斯特吧。

2. Planes dropped bombs and raked the beach with machine gun fire.: 飛機投下炸彈，并用機關槍掃射海灘。

3. Some stretches of beach are completely underwater at high tide.: 海灘上有些地方在漲潮時完全淹沒在水中。

5. Issa's white beach hat gleamed in the harsh lights.: 伊薩的白色沙灘帽在刺眼的陽光下閃閃發亮。