ocean
要点大洋
意味
- 大洋,大海
- 《the ~》五大洋の一つ
- 《話》《an ~,または複数形で》ばく大(な…),広大(な…)《+of+名》
例文
She was able to cross the Pacific Ocean by boat.
彼女は船で太平洋横断に成功した。
He wanted to swim and so travelled to the ocean.
彼は泳ぎたくて海に行った。
The frog in the well knows nothing of the ocean.
井の中の蛙、大海を知らず。
語源
ギリシャ語Okeanos「大地を取り巻く大河（の神）」から陸を取り囲む広い海「大洋」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity). Displaced native Old English gārseċġ. Also commonly referred to as the ocean sea, the sea of ocean (compare Latin mare ōceanum; Old French mer oceane, occeanne mer). Compare Saterland Frisian Oceoan (“ocean”), West Frisian oseaan (“ocean”), Dutch oceaan (“ocean”), German Low German Ozeaan (“ocean”), German Ozean (“ocean”), Danish ocean (“ocean”), Swedish ocean (“ocean”), French océan (“ocean”), Italian oceano (“ocean”). Doublet of Oceanus/Okeanos.