| 单词 |
sea-monster |
| 释义 |
sea-monster
A monster of the sea.
1. A huge fish, cetacean, or the like.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. civ. xi, Sea-monsters there, their plaies and pastymes show. 1611Bible Lam. iv. 3 Euen the sea-monsters [marg. or, sea calues] draw out the breast. 1762Ann. Reg. 103 A sea-monster was cast ashore..near Leith. It is supposed to be of the shark kind. 1860Wraxall Life in Sea ii. 27 This sea-monster [Rhytina Stelleri]..had a black skin an inch thick.
2. A fabulous marine animal of terrifying proportions and shape.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 57 When he did redeeme The virgine tribute, paied by howling Troy To the Sea⁓monster. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. i, Like a sea⁓monster, that were to ravish Andromeda from the rocke. 1667Milton P.L. i. 462 Dagon his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man And downward Fish. 1917E. Pound Lustra 86 The sea-monster Bulges the squarish bronzes. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid iii. 65 Below, she is a weird sea-monster With dolphin's tail and a belly of wolverine sort.
3. jocular.
1761Colman Jealous Wife iii. i, He is a perfect Sea⁓Monster, and always looks and talks as if he was upon Deck. |
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