ocean

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Related topics: Geography, Oceanography

o·cean /ˈəʊʃən $ ˈoʊ-/ S3 W2 noun

1 the ocean especially American EnglishAmEDNSG the great mass of salt water that covers most of the Earth’s surface 海洋，大海 SYN the sea

She stood on the beach, gazing at the ocean.

她站在海滩上，凝视着大海。

I like to swim in the ocean when it’s warm enough.

海水足够暖的时候，我喜欢在海里游泳。

Examples from the Corpus

the ocean• She stood on the beach, gazing at the ocean.

2 [countableC]SGHEO one of the very large areas of sea on the Earth’s surface …洋

the Pacific Ocean

太平洋

3 oceans of something informalLOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNT a lot of something, especially a liquid 大量[许多]某物〔尤指液体〕

oceans of champagne

大量的香槟

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oceans of something• oceans of collected data• Lunch and oceans of bubbly will be served here in the vaulted chalk cellars.• I dolled myself up after the bath. Oceans of Mitsouko.• You stayed up all night, you ate, you drank, you stayed thin and you had oceans of energy.• Lucy's body shuddered, oceans of sweat bound them, tide-tossed, tempest-tossed, redeemed.

→ a drop in the ocean at drop2(8)

n GRAMMAR: Patterns with ocean

in the ocean

You use in the ocean to talk about things that happen in the water:

We swam in the ocean.

There are thousands of species of fish in the ocean.

on the ocean

You use on the ocean to talk about things that happen on the surface of the water:

He dreamed of buying a yacht and sailing on the ocean.

by the ocean

You use by the ocean to talk about the area near the ocean:

I’d love to live by the ocean.

Examples from the Corpus

ocean• It is also worth thinking about the possibility that rearrangements of the continents and oceans would themselves have considerable climatic effects.• Amid the barren ocean floor swarmed legions of bizarre, new animals.• These shells, which came from the great oceans, impart sacred knowledge.• You think I let her scare me about that ocean?• Everything was hygienically sluiced away by the ocean.• About 100 tons of contaminated sediments still lie on the ocean floor.• Obviously if we close up the ocean again, the resemblances would not be so startling.• You could get seasick at the top watching the clouds scudding across a full moon in a vast ocean of space.

Origin ocean

(1200-1300) Latin oceanus, from Greek Okeanos name of a river believed to flow around the world

o·cean noun →n GRAMMAR1

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