单词 | circumnavigate |
释义 | circumnavigate, v.|sɜːkəmˈnævɪgeɪt| [f. L. circumnāvig-āre to sail round: see -ate3.] trans. To sail round.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 392 (T.) In his circum⁓navigating the globe. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 79 With a design of circum-navigating the island. 1846Grote Greece (1862) II. xviii. 460 Somewhere about 600 b.c...[The Phoenicians] circumnavigated Africa. 1876Green Short Hist. vii. §7 (1882) 413 Drake circumnavigated the globe. fig.1827Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 447 The business of Philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature. |

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