LingakuFrequency rank: 23,730. – 23,859.
- channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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- channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait
This meaning refers to a geographical feature that is a narrow body of water separating two landmasses, often connecting two larger bodies of water.
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かいきょう海峡をわたる渡るto cross the straitかいきょう海峡をこえる越えるto go beyond the straitかいきょう海峡のけしき景色scenery of the straitかいきょう海峡のむこうがわ向こう側the other side of the straitかいきょう海峡をわたる渡るふぇりいフェリーferry crossing the straitじゅうよう重要なかいきょう海峡important straitかいきょう海峡がせばまる狭まるthe strait narrowsこくさいかいきょう国際海峡international straitかいきょう海峡のじょうきょう状況situation of the straitかいきょう海峡をこうこう航行するto navigate the straitしぜん自然のかいきょう海峡natural channelかいきょう海峡のこうつう交通traffic in the straitせんりゃくてき戦略的かいきょう海峡strategic strait
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The rail-line was carried under the Tsugaru Strait to Hokkaido.
We took the cross-channel ferry from Dover to Calais.
3. えいしゃ泳者のしんでぃシンディ・にこらすニコラスは、へとへとになっておよぎ泳ぎきった切ったあと後、どうばあドーバーでかろうじてりくに陸にあがって上がってきたが、かいきょう海峡すいえい水泳きょうかい教会のすぽうくすまんスポークスマンはかのじょ彼女がとてもげんき元気であるとはっぴょう発表した。
The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.
She became the first woman to complete a two-way nonstop crossing of the channel in fifteen years.
The ancestors of Native Americans went to the continent from Asia by way of the Bering Strait.
The ancestors of Native Americans went to the continent from Asia by way of the Bering Strait.