Embankment
[ɪm'bæŋkm(ə)nt;em-] or [ɪm'bæŋkmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection.
校對:尼古拉斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
(n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
凯瑟琳編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you drive along an embankment, foretells you will be threatened with trouble and unhappiness. If you continue your drive without unpleasant incidents arising, you will succeed in turning these forebodings to useful account in your advancement. To ride on horseback along one, denotes you will fearlessly meet and overcome all obstacles in your way to wealth and happiness. To walk along one, you will have a weary struggle for elevation, but will &ally reap a successful reward.
錄入:山姆
例句/造句/用法:
- I went up the embankment as fast as I could go. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Piani picked up Aymo's cap where it had rolled down the embankment and put it over his face. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Aymo lay in the mud with the angle of the embankment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- He lay in the mud on the side of the embankment, his feet pointing downhill, breathing blood irregularly. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The ties had been dug out too and thrown down the embankment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Then Hermione and Miss Bradley swam over, and they sat in a row on the embankment. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- When we came near the churchyard, we had to cross an embankment, and get over a stile near a sluice-gate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- We dropped down beside the embankment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I started down the embankment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- We went down the north side of the embankment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- We all started down the embankment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I climbed down and crouched beside the railway embankment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The Embankment is not on the direct line to the station. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Bonello tired of walking in the mud of the embankment and came up with the rest of us. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I started up the embankment, slipping in the mud. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- They could hear the small locomotive panting hoarsely as it advanced with caution between the embankments. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Its construction involved the building across the bar and out into the Gulf of Mexico two long reaches of parallel embankments, called jetties. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Many citizens secured places of safety for their families by carving out rooms in these embankments. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
校對:琳达