on the sea

基本解释

When he had slowed to twenty and stretched his wings again at last, the boat was a crumb on the sea, four thousand feet below.
后来他把速度一直放慢到二十英里，最后展开双翅，四千英尺下面的渔船已经变成漂在海面上的一粒面包屑了。
Dr Scott argues that underwater mining will be far less disruptive to the environment than terrestrial mining: there will be no piles of waste rock, since the deposits are directly on the sea floor.
斯科特辩解说水下开采将比陆地开采带来的环境破坏少得多：由于是直接在海底作业，因此将不会有大量的岩石废料。
Everything that floated on the sea was sucked down by the whirlpool.
海面上所有的东西都被旋涡卷到了海水里。

The clock could tell the correct time in two places, meeting the requirements for learning longitude on the sea.
Now, not all Mycenaean sites are so far from the sea; some of them are closer, but what it's important to say is that none of them are right on the sea.
不是所有迈锡尼文明遗址都离海这样远,有些距海近些,但重点是,它们没有一个在海边
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We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.
稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固
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Water fanatics can earn their living on the sea by working as charter boat captains.
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