Levee
['levɪ;lɪ'viː] or ['lɛvi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing.
(noun.) a pier that provides a landing place on a river.
(noun.) a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court).
戴维錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of rising.
(n.) A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
(v. t.) To attend the levee or levees of.
(n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
(v. t.) To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
埃尔韦拉錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Time of rising.[2]. Ceremonious party (properly in the morning), reception, entertainment, SOIRÉE.[3]. Embankment (along a river to prevent inundation).
錄入:赖安
解釋/意思:
n. an artificial bank as that of the Lower Mississippi: a quay.
n. a morning assembly of visitors: an assembly received by a sovereign or other great personage.—v.t. to attend the levee of.
安吉拉校對
例句/造句/用法:
- 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.
- The boat now began, with heavy groans, like some vast, tired monster, to prepare to push up among the multiplied steamers at the levee. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was found that the top of the levee afforded a good road to march upon. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Why, Lord Steyne cut me at the levee last year; they are beginning to find out that Pitt Crawley is some one at last. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The land was so low and wet that it would not have been practicable to march an army across but for a levee. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I recollect that I had transferred my headquarters from a boat in the river to a house a short distance back from the levee. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- About a million and a half dollars' worth of store and property on the levee and in storehouses was consumed by fire. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Well, my Mas'r was Mr. Ellis,--lived on Levee-street. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- On the 2d of February this dam, or levee, was cut. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- On a fine Sunday in term time, it is quite a Levee--quite a Levee. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- We had to occupy the levees and the ground immediately behind. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
校對:迈克尔