词汇 | seven seas |
词源 | Seven Seas. The Seven Seas (the designation became popular when a collection of Rudyard Kipling’s poems was so entitled) are today generally regarded as the Arctic Ocean, Antarctic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, North At- lantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean. In olden times they were the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the China Sea, the West and East African Seas, the Indian Ocean, and the Persian Gulf. Someone who has sailed the seven seas has traveled widely. |
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