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 on shore
on the land and not in a ship: 在岸上
We waited until we were on shore before repairing the sails.我们等到上了岸才开始修帆。
 shores[ plural ]literary
a country or continent with a coast: 临海国家（或大陆）
In 1992, Britain played host to the first multi-racial South African team to visit these shores.1992年，英国作为东道主邀请第一支多种族南非球队访问该国。
We could hear waves crashing against the shore.
The waves gently lapped the shore.波浪轻轻地拍打着海岸。
She stood on the shore and let the water wash over her tired feet.她站在岸边，任水漫过她疲惫的双脚。
Under the watchful eye of their mother, the two boys played on the shore.
We walked hand in hand along the shore.

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shore | American Dictionary

shore
noun[ C/U ]
us/ʃɔr, ʃoʊr/
the land along the edge of the sea, a lake, or a wide river:
[ U ]We rode into the city along the shore of Lake Washington.
[ pl ]Although it happened far from our shores (= this country), the disaster has affected many Americans.

Examples of shore

shore
We of course welcome all this shoring up.
From this cour tyard, cultural features occupy the majority of one's line of sight, and the surrounding shores are blocked from view.
Moreover, the evidence on the uses of pension incomes demonstrates clearly their dual functions of protecting older people and shoring up wider family networks.
Significant stands of mangroves are also found along small island shores of the tropics, and to a much lesser extent along some temperate shorelines.
The unorthodox idea of music signifying bodily vulnerability is shored up with examples that make sense even if we don't concur.
Further, he considers proposals for shoring up the competitive position of congressional challengers.
At a minimum, existing programs could have been shored up, ensuring their long-term fiscal stability.
Proposals aimed at shoring up parental responsibility/enabling parents to meet their responsibilities to their children and their employers.
Additionally, lake shores are little influenced by river inflow and exhibit a transitional stage between oversupplied and sediment-starved conditions.
After all, every one of these men had, since his youth, spent his career shoring up the integrity and strength of the nationstate.
The origin of life on the shores of the ocean : physical and chemical conditions determining first appearance of biological processes.
Mangroves only exist in brackish regions, savannas exist as scattered islands within the forest, and morichal is confined to swamps, streamsides and lake shores.
However, there was considerable overlap in the wave exposure range of vegetated and non-vegetated shores.
However, as these forces of globalization reach the national shores, they do not have identical consequences in every country.
The novel shores up tradition, constructing a romance plot of (now mythic) proportions, providing a relatively conventional ending.
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Collocations withshore

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eastern shore
Except at one point along its easternshore, the island rises precipitously from the sea in cliffs more than 100ft m high.
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