Dike
[daik]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
(n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
(n.) A wall of turf or stone.
(n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
(v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
(v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
(v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.
校對:罗伯特
解釋/意思:
n. a trench or the earth dug out and thrown up: a ditch: a mound raised to prevent inundation: in Scotland a wall (Dry-stane dike a wall without mortar; Fail-dike a wall of turf) sometimes even a thorn-hedge: (geol.) a wall-like mass of igneous rock in the fissures of stratified rocks.—v.t. to surround with a dike or bank.
手打:莫尔
例句/造句/用法:
- The removal of the dike by a discharge of forty tons of dynamite, set off by President Wilson, from Washington, was the last stage in the completion of the great waterway. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This dike separated the water in the Gatun locks from Gaillard Cut. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A hundred fears poured one over the other into the little heart, as fast as the waves on to the Dike. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The gates and dikes and banks came bursting at me through the mist, as if they cried as plainly as could be, A boy with somebody else's pork pie! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Down banks and up banks, and over gates, and splashing into dikes, and breaking among coarse rushes: no man cared where he went. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
錄入:内德