• n. 海灣；深淵；分歧；漩渦
• vt. 吞沒

詞源同whelm, 淹沒。用來指海灣。

gulf

gulf: [14] Gulf comes from Greek kólphos, which meant originally ‘bosom’. It was later extended metaphorically to denote ‘bag’, and also ‘trough between waves’, and these senses (the latter modified to ‘a(chǎn)byss’) followed it through Vulgar Latin *colphus, Italian golfo, and French golphe into English. The derivative engulf, based on the sense ‘a(chǎn)byss’, dates from the mid-16th century.

gulf (n.)

late 14c., "profound depth," from Old French golf "a gulf, whirlpool," from Italian golfo "a gulf, a bay," from Late Latin colfos, from Greek kolpos "bay, gulf of the sea," earlier "trough between waves, fold of a loose garment," originally "bosom," the common notion being "curved shape." This is from PIE *kwelp- "to arch, to vault" (compare Old English hwealf, a-hwielfan "to overwhelm"). Latin sinus underwent the same development, being used first for "bosom," later for "gulf" (and in Medieval Latin, "hollow curve or cavity in the body"). The geographic sense "large tract of water extending into the land" (larger than a bay, smaller than a sea, but the distinction is not exact and not always observed) is in English from c. 1400, replacing Old English s?-earm. Figurative sense of "a wide interval" is from 1550s. The U.S. Gulf States so called from 1836. The Gulf Stream (1775) takes its name from the Gulf of Mexico.

1. These issues were brought into sharp focus by the Gulf crisis.

海灣危機讓這些問題備受關(guān)注。

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2. Hurricane Andrew was last night heading into the Gulf of Mexico.

昨晚，颶風(fēng)“安德魯”進入了墨西哥灣。

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3. The Gulf has 65 per cent of the world's oil reserves.

海灣地區(qū)擁有全世界65％的石油儲藏。

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4. The spill could wipe out the Gulf's turtle population.

這次原油泄漏可能會使波斯灣的海龜滅絕。

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5. A yawning North-South gulf has opened up with both sides digging in.

雙方都堅持自己的立場，南北之間出現(xiàn)了一條鴻溝。

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