mindmap root((MAR)) marina A dock or harbor where pleasure boats can be moored securely, often with facilities offering supplies or repairs.
🌱The coast of Florida has marinas all along it for the use of anything from flimsy sailboats to enormous yachts. 🌳Marina comes straight from Latin, where it means simply "of the sea." At a modern marina, sailors can acquire whatever they need for their next excursion, or they can tie up their boats until the next weekend comes along. Some even imitate John D. MacDonald's famous detective hero Travis McGee, who lives on his boat in Miami and rarely leaves the marina. aquamarine 1、 A transparent blue or blue-green gem.
2、 A pale blue or greenish blue that is the color of clear seawater in sunlight.
🌱Many of the houses on the Italian Riviera are painted aquamarine to match the Mediterranean. 🌳Aqua marina is Latin for "seawater," so when a lovely blue-green form of the semiprecious gem known as beryl was given an English name several centuries ago, aquamarine seemed appropriate. Aquamarine is the ideal color that most of us carry around in our heads when we imagine the waters that lap the shores of the Greek and Caribbean islands on a sunny day. But even the Mediterranean and the Caribbean can take on lots of other colors depending on weather conditions. mariner A seaman or sailor.
🌱When he signed on as a mariner, the young Ishmael never suspected that the ship would be pursuing a great white whale. 🌳In Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an old seaman tells of how, by shooting a friendly albatross, he had brought storms and disaster to his ship, and how as punishment his shipmates hung the great seabird around the mariner's neck and made him wear it until it rotted. The word mariner has occasionally been used to mean simply "explorer," as in the famous Mariner spaceflights in the 1960s and '70s, the first to fly close to Mars, Venus, and Mercury. maritime 1、 Bordering on or having to do with the sea.
2、 Having to do with navigation or commerce on the sea.
🌱As a result of the ocean, Canada's Maritime Provinces—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island—have a late spring but a mild winter. 🌳The maritime countries of Portugal and England produced many seafaring explorers during the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom sailed under the flags of other countries. Sailing for the Spanish, Ferdinand Magellan captained the ship that was the first to circle the world, charting many new maritime routes as it went. Henry Hudson, funded by the Dutch, sailed up what we call today the Hudson River, claiming the maritime area that now includes New York City for the Netherlands.