Geyser
['giːzə;'gaɪ-] or ['ɡaɪzɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a spring that discharges hot water and steam.
(verb.) to overflow like a geyser.
编辑:桑德拉--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.
克劳德特录入
同义词及近义词:
n. Boiling spring.
校对:威拉德
解释:
n. a hot spring as in Iceland which spouts water into the air.
校对:玛克辛
例句:
- The Great Geyser and the New Geyser are the most remarkable ones in Iceland, where there are about a hundred altogether. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The famous geyser shown in the illustration is called Old Faithful because of the clock-like regularity of its eruptions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The Grand Geyser at Firehole Basin in Yellowstone Park is the most magnificent natural fountain in the whole world. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The hot-lake district of Auckland, New Zealand, is also famous in possessing some of the most remarkable geyser scenery in the world. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It still has, however, a circular rocky basin, forty feet in diameter, in which a violent geyser is constantly boiling up to the height of ten to twelve feet, emitting dense clouds of steam. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Those spouting geysers certainly don't bode any good, sir, nor that earthquake either. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Geysers were first observed in Iceland and the name, therefore, comes from that language, being derived from the word geysa, meaning to gush or rush forth. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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