词语辨析

coast /shore/ beach/ seaside

The coast is usually a long stretch of land next to the sea, for example the part of a country that is next to the sea.

* coast通常指狭长的海岸，如一个国家的海岸: We live on the coast.我们住在海滨。The shore is the land at the edge of the sea or alake.

* shore指海岸边、湖畔: We camped on the north shore of Lake Michigan.我们在密歌根湖北岸歇宿。。The survivors swam to shore.那些幸存者游到了岸边。

The beach is the part of the shore which is often covered with sand and is where people go to enijoy themselves or to relax. * beach常指人们玩乐或消遣的沙滩: We went for a walk along the beach.我们沿沙滩散步。She took the kids to the beach for the day.她带了孩子们去海滩玩天 。

in BrE, the seaside is sometimes used to mean an area on the coast where people go on holiday/vacation, but sea is now much more common for this. In both BrE and AmE seaside can be used in front of a noun.在英国英语中，seaside有时指度假的海滨地区，但现在更常用sea表示此意:seaside在英国和美国英语中均可用于名词前:a seaside resort海滨胜地