Bayou
['baɪuː] or ['baɪu]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
整理:马提--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.
錄入:山姆
解釋/意思:
n. name given to the marshy offshoots of lakes and rivers esp. in North America.
編輯:卡蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- Steel's Bayou empties into the Yazoo River between Haines' Bluff and its mouth. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Some miles from New Carthage the levee to Bayou Vidal was broken in several places, overflowing the roads for the distance of two miles. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- With this we were able to explore the lake and bayou as far as cleared. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The bayou was grown up with timber, which the enemy had felled into the ditch. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- At the upper end of the bayou there was a strip of uncleared land which afforded a cover for a portion of our men. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The troops were set to work at once to construct a bridge across the South Fork of the Bayou Pierre. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The 20th and 21st were spent in strengthening our position and in making roads in rear of the army, from Yazoo River or Chickasaw Bayou. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Sherman at once returned through Black Bayou in a canoe, and passed on until he met a steamer, with the last of the reinforcements he had, coming up. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Bayou Baxter, as it reaches lower land, begins to spread out and disappears entirely in a cypress swamp before it reaches the Macon. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A bayou runs irregularly across this low land, the bottom of which, however, is above the surface of the Big Black at ordinary stages. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Two of his brigades were sent up the bayou to find a crossing and reach the North Fork to repair the bridge there. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Sherman went back, at the request of the admiral, to clear out Black Bayou and to hurry up reinforcements, which were far behind. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It is six miles long and has its outlet through Bayou Baxter, Bayou Macon, and the Tensas, Washita and Red Rivers. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They tried to force their way through Black Bayou with their steamer, but, finding it slow and tedious work, debarked and pushed forward on foot. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The bayous were soon filled and much of the country was overflowed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Four bridges had to be built across bayous, two of them each over six hundred feet long, making about two thousand feet of bridging in all. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The intervening land is cut up by bayous filled from the river in high water--many of them navigable for steamers. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The distance would probably be greater by the tortuous bayous through which this new route would carry us. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- North of the Yazoo was all a marsh, heavily timbered, cut up with bayous, and much overflowed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Three large bayous had to be crossed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
錄入:西德尼