coast

• 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

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

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

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.

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。

A tour boat turned over off the coast of nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Cities that get more rainfall than Seattle include Huston, Memphis, Nashville, and pretty much every major city on the eastern coast, such as New York, Boston, and Miami.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There's a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

The hollowed-out A0 was stripped of everything potentially harmful to the environment and sunk off the Aegean coast today.

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

When the weather cleared, Naddodd found himself on the coast of a new land.

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

You can see that we're here to stay, said Vladimir Cheberdak, 57, chief of the Bellingshausen Station, as he sipped tea under a portrait of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who explored the Antarctic coast in 1820.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

And while the Portuguese took part in the trade, ferrying nuts down the coast along with other goods, by 1620, when English explorer Richard Jobson made his way up the Gambia, the nuts were still peculiar to his eyes.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Europeans did not know of them until the 1500s, when Portuguese ships arrived on the coast of what is now sierra Leone.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Just off the coast of Southern California sits Santa Cruz Island, where a magical creature called the island fox dwells .

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

This could trigger a tsunami that would create havoc along the coast.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

In the afternoon, there will be rain in most places, with winds becoming stronger along the coast.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 听力 原文

Many people who live along the coast make a living in fishing industry.

2017年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

No area was spared or unaffected, from the foggy northern coast to the Sierra Nevada mountains to the San Gabriels above Los Angeles.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

That night, hurricane sandy attacked the east coast, and rockaway was hit especially hard.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Three days later, a hurricane hit the coast near cornwall.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England’s southern coast.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England's southern coast.

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Meanwhile, many settlers had slighter religious commitments than Dane's, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The apartments in the elegant towers mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller-two-bedroom units under 1, 000 square feet-than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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。

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...the west coast of Scotland.

苏格兰西海岸

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I switched off the engine and coasted round the corner.

我熄掉引擎，靠惯性转过弯去。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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'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。”

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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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