“circumnavigate”的英文意思

单词

circumnavigate

释义

circumnavigate, v.|sɜːkəmˈnævɪgeɪt|
[f. L. circumnāvig-āre to sail round: see -ate³.]
trans. To sail round.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 392 (T.) In his circum⁓navigating the globe.1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 79 With a design of circum-navigating the island.1846Grote Greece (1862) II. xviii. 460 Somewhere about 600 b.c...[The Phoenicians] circumnavigated Africa.1876Green Short Hist. vii. §7 (1882) 413 Drake circumnavigated the globe.
fig.1827Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 447 The business of Philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

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