英汉词典

coast 基本解释

• vi. 滑行；沿岸航行
• vt. 沿…岸航行
• n. 海岸；滑坡
• n. (Coast)人名；(英)科斯特

coast 词态变化

coast 中文词源

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 英文词源

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.

coast 词组搭配

coast 英文释义

1. the shore of a sea or ocean

2. a slope down which sleds may coast;

"when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course"

3. the area within view;

"the coast is clear"

4. 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"

coast 同义词解析

bank, beach, coast, shore, seaside

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。

coast 双语例句

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。

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2. The Atlantic coast is within sight of the hotel.

从宾馆可以看见大西洋海岸。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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coast 实用场景例句

a town on the south coast of England

英格兰南海岸的一座城市

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islands off the west coast of Ireland

爱尔兰西海岸的岛屿

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a trip to the coast

海滨旅游

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We walked along the coast for five miles.

我们沿着海岸步行了五英里。

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the Welsh coast

威尔士海岸

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a pretty stretch of coast

一段美丽的海岸线

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the coast road

滨海道路

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As soon as the coast was clear he climbed in through the window.

等到四下无人，他便从窗户爬了进去。

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The car coasted along until it stopped.

汽车随惯性而下直至滑行停止。

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She took her feet off the pedals and coasted downhill.

她把脚从自行车的踏板上松开，沿山坡滑行而下。

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The plane coasted down the runway.

飞机顺着跑道平稳滑行。

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He coasted through his final exams.

他毫不费劲地通过了期终考试。

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You're just coasting─it's time to work hard now.

你根本是在应付——现在该努力干了。

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Camp sites are usually situated along the coast, close to beaches.

野营地一般都位于海滨，靠近沙滩。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the west coast of Scotland.

苏格兰西海岸

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I switched off the engine and coasted round the corner.

我熄掉引擎，靠惯性转过弯去。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They picked up momentum, then slipped into neutral and coasted quietly down the slope.

他们加大油门，再切入空挡，随后没大响动地滑下山坡。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Ivan Lendl coasted to a 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Roger Rasheed...

伊万·伦德尔以6:3，6:2和6:3的比分轻松战胜了罗杰·拉希德。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The company was coasting on the enormous success of its early products.

公司凭借早期产品的巨大成功而在市场上遥遥领先。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

There was a time when Charles was coasting at school and I should have told him to buckle down.

有一段时间查尔斯在学校不太用功，我当时应该让他加把劲的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

'You can come out now,' he called. 'The coast is clear. She's gone.'

“你现在可以出来了。”他喊道，“没危险了，她已经走了。”

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He built my personality into his hero.

他根据我的个性塑造了他的主人公.

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A coast guard boat put out through the waves.

一艘海岸巡逻舰破浪驶离海岸.

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We get heavy fogs on the coast in winter.

这里的海边冬季有浓雾.

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The ship kept close to the coast.

那条船靠近海岸航行.

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There is only one port along this rocky coast.

这个多岩石的海岸只有一个港口.

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Crewmen aboard the tanker sighted a ship in distress off the coast of Senegal.

油船上的船员们在塞内加尔的近海发现了一艘失事的船.

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