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2015年9月23日 · "At sea" is a conception of not being on the land when taking about sea waters or oceans "At the sea" means by the sea waters when, for instance, we talk about seals or penguins, or about a tent put up near the sea water. "On the sea" is about something floating, bobbing on the sea water surface, like a boat or a buoy.
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2019年10月27日 · Hi. How do you actually write English alphabet letters if you ever need to? For instance, in Italian until now we have written "a" for A, "bi" for B, "ci" for C "di" for D etcetera...even though the Stupid Modern Times & Things that are shaping current society (for …
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2008年7月23日 · There are lots of UK towns that include "-on-sea" as part of their name. Talking about a person being on the sea sounds odd, but a town or place on the sea is beside the sea, not on top of it So a country on the Baltic Sea doesn't sound strange to me, whereas to say that a country was at the sea or by the sea would sound very odd.
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2015年5月24日 · sea /si/n. the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface; ocean:[countable]the seven ...
Sea fruits / fruits of the sea - WordReference Forums
2010年4月6日 · Hello. :) Could you please tell me if the expression "sea fruits" or "fruits of the sea" exists in English? In languages like French or Italian this expression refers to seafood (usually shellfish) in the context of gastronomy. I have seen the French expression, "fruits de mer" used in English...
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2017年11月29日 · I didn't know, until having just looked it up, that there is a verb "to turtle". However, I suggest the hyphen may have been used to indicate how "turtling" was pronounced i.e. as turtle+ing rather than (how it looks) turt+ling.
the benchland tilts up in a series of eroded red-earthed mesas
2024年1月25日 · 美国散文集The Solace of Open Spaces中的难句 Today the sun is out—only a few clouds billowing. In the east, where the sheep have started off without me, the benchland tilts up in a series of eroded red-earthed mesas, planed flat on top by a million years of water; behind them, abold line of muscular...
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2008年12月31日 · - Sea la que sea - denota familiaridad - Sea la que fuere - denota distanciamiento La diferencia entre 'sea cual sea' y 'sea cual fuere' es de grado de probabilidad, que a su vez indica un posicionamiento por parte del hablante respecto a la cuestión a la que se refiere, de la que habla. El 'sea' (presente de subjuntivo') se refiere al presente.
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2008年10月6日 · From the link above: El descubrimiento de una segunda persona con ánthrax -- que ya dejó una reciente víctima -- en el sur de FLorida, ha hecho que las autoridades estén investigando la posibilidad de que sea un acto criminal. The discovery itself isn't the "cause" of the anthrax investigation; the investigation is triggered because anthrax ...
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2013年4月14日 · Ya sea de día, ya sea de noche, nunca estudia y duerme como una marmota. Realmente el resto de las que figuran en los libros me parecen muy formales y no se escuchan en el habla corriente. Espero sus comentarios.