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"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。