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

來自拉丁語costa,肋骨，邊，詞源同costal,accost.詞義由岸邊引申為海岸。

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.

1. The boat was anchored off the northern coast of the peninsula.

這艘船停泊在離該半島北部海岸不遠的地方。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The Atlantic coast is within sight of the hotel.

從賓館可以看見大西洋海岸。

來自柯林斯例句

3. He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist.

透過薄霧他認出了那是英格蘭的海岸線。

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4. The town was Redcar, a seaside resort on the Cleveland coast.

那個城鎮叫雷德卡，是克利夫蘭海岸上的一個海濱勝地。

來自柯林斯例句

5. He was drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Spain.

他在西班牙海岸附近的一次海難中溺水身亡。

來自柯林斯例句