海峡
かいきょう
channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait
JLPT N1 Common word
Meanings
Noun
channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait
Example sentences
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They are building a long bridge across the channel.
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This boat sails through the Strait of Gibraltar.
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At this point the sea narrows into a strait.
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We took the cross-channel ferry from Dover to Calais.
ノンストップで海峡を往復した女性としては、彼女が１５年ぶりの人となった。
She became the first woman to complete a two-way nonstop crossing of the channel in fifteen years.
More examples (2)
木曜島はオーストラリア最北端ヨーク岬とニューギニア島の間のトレス海峡に位置する。
Thursday Island is situated in the Torres Strait between Australia's northernmost Cape York and New Guinea.
泳者のシンディ・ニコラスは、へとへとになって泳ぎ切った後、ドーバーでかろうじて陸に上がってきたが、海峡水泳教会のスポークスマンは彼女がとても元気であると発表した。
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.