coast是什么意思_coast怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it;"his slide didn"t stop until the bottom of the hill"
"the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

Verb:

move effortlessly; by force of gravity

中英词源

coast 海岸

来自拉丁语costa,肋骨，边，词源同costal,accost.词义由岸边引申为海岸。

coast: coast: [13] Latin costa meant ‘rib’ (hence the English medical term intercostal ‘between the ribs’), but also more generally ‘flank, side’. It was in this sense that it passed into Old French as coste, and subsequently into English. The modern meaning ‘seashore’ (which had already developed in Old French) arises from the shore being thought of as the ‘side’ or ‘edge’ of the land (compare seaside).

Amongst the senses of the French word little represented in English is ‘hillside, slope’; it was however adopted in North America for a ‘slope down which one slides on a sledge’, and came to be used in the mid 19th century as a verb meaning ‘sledge down such a slope’. That was the source of the modern verbal sense ‘freewheel’. The coster of costermonger [16] was originally costard, a variety of apple named from its prominent ‘ribs’.

And another hidden relative is cutlet [18], borrowed from French côtelette, literally ‘little rib’.
=> costermonger, cutlet, intercostal
coast (n.): "margin of the land," early 14c.; earlier "rib as a part of the body" (early 12c.), from Old French coste "rib, side, flank; slope, incline;" later "coast, shore" (12c., Modern French côte), from Latin costa "a rib," perhaps related to a root word for "bone" (compare Old Church Slavonic kosti "bone," also see osseous).

Latin costa developed a secondary sense in Medieval Latin of "the shore," via notion of the "side" of the land, as well as "side of a hill," and this passed into Romanic (Italian costa "coast, side," Spanish cuesta "slope," costa "coast"), but only in the Germanic languages that borrowed it is it fully specialized in this sense (Dutch kust, Swedish kust, German Küste, Danish kyst). French also used this word for "hillside, slope," which led to verb meaning "sled downhill," first attested 1775 in American English. Expression the coast is clear (16c.) is an image of landing on a shore unguarded by enemies.
coast (v.): late 14c., "to skirt, to go around the sides, to go along the border" of something (as a ship does the coastline), from Anglo-French costien, from the French source of coast (n.). The meaning "sled downhill," first attested 1775 in American English, is a separate borrowing. Of motor vehicles, "to move without thrust from the engine," by 1925; figurative use, of persons, "not to exert oneself," by 1934. Related: Coasted; coasting.

词态变化

复数 coasts;
第三人称单数 coasts;
过去式 coasted;
过去分词 coasted;
现在分词 coasting;

权威造句

1. The boat was anchored off the northern coast of the peninsula.: 这艘船停泊在离该半岛北部海岸不远的地方。

2. The Atlantic coast is within sight of the hotel.: 从宾馆可以看见大西洋海岸。

3. He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist.: 透过薄雾他认出了那是英格兰的海岸线。

4. The town was Redcar, a seaside resort on the Cleveland coast.: 那个城镇叫雷德卡，是克利夫兰海岸上的一个海滨胜地。

5. He was drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Spain.: 他在西班牙海岸附近的一次海难中溺水身亡。

近反义词

bank

beach

shore

相似短语

on the coast 在岸上，沿岸

to coast 沿海岸航行

coast protection works 海岸防护工程

coast waters 沿海水域

elevated coast 上升海岸

the south coast 南岸

pacific coast phr. 派赛菲特，太平洋海岸

coast polypody phr. 羽叶

coast white cedar phr. 美国尖叶扁柏（柏科乔木，生长缓慢，分布于美国东海岸）

US Coast Guard n. 美国海岸警卫队

单词分析

这些名词均含有“岸”之意。
bank多指有一定坡度的河岸、湖岸或堤岸。
beach指倾斜度小，被海、湖或河水冲刷而有沙或卵石积存的地方。
coast地理学上的名词，专指被视为边界的沿海陆地的尽头。
shore指紧靠大湖泊或海洋的陆地边缘或靠海的休养地。
seaside尤指疗养地、游览地区的海边。

记忆方法

1. 在大海(ocean)的边上，则是大海的oc，转换成了co，所以与海有关是海岸线。

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