off the coast:在海面上
Examples:
1.They had been wrecked (ie shipwrecked) off the coast of Africa.
他們的船在非洲沿海遇難損毀.
2.After months of drilling,oil was found off the coast.
經(jīng)數(shù)月鉆探,在沿海找到了石油.
3.I look at Cuba,ninety miles off the coast of the United States.
看看古巴,它離美國(guó)沿海僅九十英里.
4.It is a lone island off the coast of Guangdong,a mere dot,so to speak,in the South China Sea.
它是廣東海岸邊的一座孤島,可說(shuō)是南海上的一個(gè)小點(diǎn).
along the coast:沿著海岸
Examples:
1.They traveled on the steamboat along the coast.
他們坐著小汽船沿著海岸旅行.
2.Fishing boats were anchored all along the coast.
漁船沿著岸拋錨停泊.
3.The Asian countries along the coast of the Pacific all came out against the US new military base in Japan.
太平洋沿岸的亞洲各國(guó)都宣布反對(duì)美國(guó)在日本的新軍事基地.
4.A member of any of a group of South American Indian peoples living along the coast of Brazil,in the Amazon River valley,and in Paraguay.
圖皮族居住在巴西,亞馬孫河河谷和巴拉圭的南美洲印第安人的一個(gè)民族的成員
on the coast:
在岸上
沿岸
Examples:
1.A promontory of southeast Newfoundland,Canada,on the coast of the Avalon Peninsula.
萊思角加拿大紐芬蘭省東南部一海角,位于亞法隆半島沿岸
2.These beacons on the coast are to warn and guide ships.
這些海灘上的信號(hào)燈是用來(lái)提醒和指示船舶的.
3.The town lies on the coast.
該城位於海邊.
around the coast 一般不這樣用,用上面的就可以了.