coastal

UK:  ['kəʊst(ə)l]

US:  ['koʊst(ə)l]

adj.

1.海岸的;沿海岸的

2.沿海的,临海的;沿岸的

3.海洋

n.

1.〔英国〕海防飞机

1 . At twenty-three, I finally escaped and found myself sailing for a year and a half down the inter-coastal waterway to the Bahamas.
23岁那年，我终于逃跑了，然后沿着两岸间水道航行了一年半，向南去往巴哈马群岛。

2 . Last September our troop took part of a Coastal Cleanup day to help clean up the beaches and highways after the oil spill.
去年九月，我们的队伍参加了海岸清洁日活动，以帮助清理被漏油污染的海滩和公路。

3 . He said ships and boats have been dispatched from two other coastal cities, Rizhao and Yantai, to help haul away the algae.
他说他们还从另外两个沿海城市日照和烟台抽调了船只以协助清理。

4 . Fujian Province, a coastal area along the Taiwan Strait, was one of the hardest-hit areas.
福建省，处在台湾海峡的沿岸地带，是遭受重创最严重的地区之一。

5 . For one thing, humanity's ancestors do not seem to have been exclusively coastal.
首先一点就是，人类的祖先似乎没有独占海岸。