beach

英 [biːtʃ] 美[bitʃ]

核心词汇中频词CET6考研IELTSTEM4CET4

复数: beaches;第三人称单数: beaches;过去式: beached;过去分词: beached;现在分词: beaching;

beach 海湾

词源不详，原义表示小石子。

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 bæce 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 bæce, 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.: 如果想去一个与众不同的海滨度假胜地，那就去基韦斯特吧。

2. Planes dropped bombs and raked the beach with machine gun fire.: 飞机投下炸弹，并用机关枪扫射海滩。

3. Some stretches of beach are completely underwater at high tide.: 海滩上有些地方在涨潮时完全淹没在水中。

5. Issa's white beach hat gleamed in the harsh lights.: 伊萨的白色沙滩帽在刺眼的阳光下闪闪发亮。