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    Embankment查询结果如下:

    音标:[ɪm'bæŋkmənt]
    名词复数:embankments 词频:高频常用词

    基本释义/说明:n.堤防;筑堤
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    n.
    堤(岸);堤防;(铁路的)路堤;
    We must throw up an embankment to stop the river from flooding the town.
    我们必须筑一道堤防以阻止河水淹没城市.
    The Thames embankment
    泰晤士河长堤.
    图典解说
    Layers of material used to build up or level the route the road is to take.
    用于修建或平整道路的材料层。
    -扩展释义
    n.
    1. 筑堤[U]2. (河、海的)堤岸;(铁路的)路堤[C]
    N/A
    堤,堤岸
    n. 【化学】
    筑堤,堤防,路堤
    An embankment raised to prevent a river from overflowing.
    堤岸,防洪堤防止河流泛滥而建造的堤岸
    【海运】
    堤,堤岸(道路)牙边
    n. 【机械】
    堤坝,筑堤工程
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:noun

    例句1. a steep grassy embankment’

    同义词系列1
    -Embankment的不同词性形态

    名词 变体/同根词

    One who embanks.

    动词 变体/同根词

    to throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone
    “A few attempts had been made to deepen and embank the natural streams, but with slender success.”
    “In Friesland and Groningen plans were made to embank and drain the Wadden Sea.”
    “If you were to embank Lincolnshire more stoutly against the sea?”
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