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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

Pacific Ocean
  1. 1. [Geography] 太平洋

Collins English-English Dictionary

Pacific Ocean
  1. 1. n the world's largest and deepest ocean, lying between Asia and Australia and North and South America: almost landlocked in the north, linked with the Arctic Ocean only by the Bering Strait, and extending to Antarctica in the south; has exceptionally deep trenches, and a large number of volcanic and coral islands. Area: about 165760000 sq km (64000000 sq miles). Average depth: 4215 m (14050 ft). Greatest depth: Challenger Deep (in the Marianas Trench), 11033 m (37073 ft). Greatest width: (between Panama and Mindanao, Philippines) 17066 km (10600 miles)

Examples

Mexico has beautiful beaches on the Pacific Ocean.
墨西哥拥有太平洋的美丽海岸。
The Panama Canal connects the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
巴拿马运河把加勒比海和大西洋连接起来。
A cargo carrying military supplies was ambushed in the Pacific Ocean.
一批军用物资在太平洋遭到伏击。
The find was to search throughout the Pacific Ocean for pirate ships.
这次探索活动是在整个太平洋中搜寻海盗船。
This is a cosmopolitan species with a distribution ranging from the Southern Ocean to the North Pacific.
这是一个世界性物种,从南部海洋到北太平洋都有分布。
The weather system of the pacific is determined by the uninterrupted smoothness of the ocean.
太平洋的天气系统是由海洋表面是否平稳决定的。
美国太平洋岛屿托管地包括马里亚纳、马绍尔、加罗林三大群岛。
The islands in the Pacific Ocean trusted by the UN to the US include the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline islands.
中国东临太平洋。
China borders on the Pacific Ocean to the east.

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