"dyke" in Chinese (Simplified)
堤坝
Definition
为阻挡水流、防止洪水而建造的厚墙或堤坝,尤其沿河流或海岸线修建。在荷兰等低洼地区很常见,那里的堤坝保护着海拔低于海平面的土地。
Usage Notes (Chinese (Simplified))
也拼作 'dike'(美式英语更常见)。常见搭配:'build a dyke'、'breach in the dyke'、'sea dyke'。著名的"用手指堵住堤坝的男孩"故事就是指这个意思。在地质学中,'dyke' 也指穿切其他岩层的岩脉,但属专业用法。
Examples
The dyke protects the village from river flooding.
**堤坝**保护村庄免受河水泛滥。
The Netherlands has thousands of dykes along its coastline.
荷兰沿海岸线有数千座**堤坝**。
Workers repaired the dyke before the rainy season started.
工人们在雨季来临前修好了**堤坝**。
There's a breach in the dyke — if we don't fix it now, the whole area will flood.
**堤坝**出现了缺口——如果我们现在不修,整个地区都会被淹。
They've been reinforcing the sea dykes ever since that devastating storm in 2018.
自从2018年那场毁灭性风暴以来,他们一直在加固海岸**堤坝**。
Without the dyke system, half of this country would be underwater.
没有**堤坝**系统,这个国家一半的地方都会在水下。