gulf的意思|gulf的解释-里氏词典

gulf [gʌlf]

n. 海湾, 深渊, 漩涡, 隔阂

vt. 吞没

[经] 墨西哥海湾

I think there is no gulf between my daughter and I.
我认为我和我女儿之间没有隔阂。
He indicated the location of the Persian Gulf with a pen on the map.
他用一支笔在地图上标出了波斯湾的位置。
The president hugged himself with pleasure over the quick withdrawal from the gulf war.
总统为自己能从海湾战争中见好就收感到暗自庆幸。

gulf

[ noun ]

an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay

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an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

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he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends

there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy

a deep wide chasm

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Gulf \Gulf\ (g[u^]lf), n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko`lpos
bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko`lfos.]
1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or
basin,

He then surveyed
Hell and the gulf between. --Milton.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.
--Luke xvi.
26.

2. That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] --Shak.

3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking
eddy. --Shak.

A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold. --Tennyson.

4. (Geog.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the
land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.

5. (Mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.

{Gulf Stream} (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North
Atlantic.

Note: It originates in the westward equatorial current, due
to the trade winds, is deflected northward by Cape St.
Roque through the Gulf of Mexico, and flows parallel to
the coast of North America, turning eastward off the
island of Nantucket. Its average rate of flow is said
to be about two miles an hour. The similar Japan
current, or Kuro-Siwo, is sometimes called the Gulf
Stream of the Pacific.

{Gulf weed} (Bot.), a branching seaweed ({Sargassum
bacciferum}, or sea grape), having numerous berrylike air
vessels, -- found in the Gulf Stream, in the Sargasso Sea,
and elsewhere.

It has rich reserves of oil and natural gas, a strategic location and triple the population of any other gulf country.
Although the bill does not specifically address the cost of Operation Desert Shield, expected to total $15 billion in fiscal 1991, sea lifts and projects such as the M-1 tank are key to the U.S. buildup in the gulf.
Seas, as the Marines learned during recent exercises along the gulf coast, can experience waves up to 15 feet.
The journalist who spoke with the Iraqi leader in Baghdad on Saturday said Saddam told him "Tel Aviv would receive the first blow in the case of a gulf war," whether or not Israel joined any multinational strike against Iraq.
The British escapees told London's Daily Mail newspaper that they had spent 25 hours in rough seas after taking the 10-foot boat through the marshes of southern Iraq, into the Shatt-al-Arab waterway and then the gulf.
The Independence, the first such American warship in the gulf in 16 years, was headed to the Arabian Sea, said a U.S. military source in the gulf.
The Independence, the first such American warship in the gulf in 16 years, was headed to the Arabian Sea, said a U.S. military source in the gulf.
The Iraqi leader proclaimed the gulf war a great Iraqi victory, even though it was pretty much a draw brought about by mutual exhaustion.
In the so-called "tanker war" _ an offshoot of the 8-year-old Iran-Iraq war _ Iran attacks neutral shipping in the gulf in retaliation for Iraqi raids on its oil tankers.
Palestinians also have lost international sympathy by supporting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the gulf crisis.
They said winds gusting to just under 35 mph lashed waves as high as 30 feet in the southern Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway into the gulf.
But the female fitness craze has arrived, and among gulf women it is just beginning to hit its stride.
The United States tripled the strength of its force in the gulf as the `tanker war" worsened in 1987.
Some thought the elections would affect the policy toward the gulf, others thought international pressure would be more important.
The Jordan gathering, originally billed as an extraordinary summit to discuss the gulf crisis, holds much higher risks of dissension of the kind the staid Saudis abhor.
The United States is seeking approximately $28 billion through the end of 1991 for the gulf campaign.
In response to Iraq's attack Saturday on an Iranian tanker and several offshore oil facilities, the administration urged the Iraqi government to refrain from further attacks in the gulf.
Rumors of Navy action spread through shipping circles in the gulf, where Iran and Iraq have been at war since September 1980, when six U.S. vessels were spotted off Dubai.
The officials said there were no American casualties in Sunday's clash, the second major one between U.S. and Iranian forces in the gulf in three months.
With criticism of the program already being expressed on Capitol Hill, a halt to the convoy operation would expose the Pentagon to charges that it rushed into the gulf region less than fully prepared.
George B. Crist told reporters in Manama on June 1 the cruiser's air defense radar could cover the entire gulf and called it a "quantum leap forward" in detering a new Iranian anti-ship missile site nearing completion in the strait.
The current tolerant public mood toward Bush's gulf policy could change dramatically if Bush goes to war without satisfying the American people that peaceful alternatives had been exhausted.
France has also begun its planned naval cutbacks in the gulf region.
To some extent, U.S. officials may have made things worse for the shippers by making it clear that the Navy wouldn't safeguard any ships in the gulf but those flying American flags.
MicroProse is preparing a more sophisticated gulf war game for personal computers.
President Bill Clinton received two letters last week illustrating the gulf between lofty free trade goals and political reality. One was sent by the new House Republican leadership.
Officials concerned about vulnerability had been reluctant to send a carrier into the gulf, whose entrance is the narrow Strait of Hormuz.
But judging by last week's meeting, a significant gulf remains between the two sides.
And the battleship Missouri is to join the USS Wisconsin already in the gulf.
The gulf crisis has enabled China to break out part way from its diplomatic isolation resulting from the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators 18 months ago.

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