Dam
[dæm]
解释:
(noun.) female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock.
(noun.) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea.
(verb.) obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; 'dam the gorges of the Yangtse River'.
手打:路德维格--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
(n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
(n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
(n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
(v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
(v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
手打:威尔
同义词及近义词:
n. Mother (of a beast), female parent.
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解释:
n. a mother applied to quadrupeds.
n. an embankment to restrain water: the water thus confined.—v.t. to keep back water by a bank:—pr.p. dam′ming; pa.p. dammed.
编辑:珀西
例句:
- I ain't going to have any of this dam sentimental nonsense and humbug here, sir, the father cried out. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- When you dam up a stream of water, as soon as the dam is full, as much water must run over the dam-head as if there was no dam at all. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- How he DU dam and swear, the servants would cry, delighted at his precocity. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- When they have got this quantity, the dam is full, and the whole stream which flows in afterwards must run over. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Usually a leak in a dam or reservoir occurs near the bottom. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The higher and stronger the dam-head, the greater must be the difference in the depth of water behind and before it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The stream showed clear and smooth-looking in the glasses and, below the curl of the falling water, the spray from the dam was blowing in the wind. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- The Bursting of Dams and Reservoirs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Besides, the stream had been dammed so that the valley was a lake. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- He ought to be dammed--or leveed, I should more properly say. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Such feeling as Eustacia had idly given to Wildeve was dammed into a flood by Thomasin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- In the second case the blood returning by the superficial veins is dammed back. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The task is turned from the damming and restricting of wants to the creation of fine environments for them. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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