Reservoir
['rezəvwɑ:(r)] or ['rɛzɚ,vɔr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil).
(noun.) lake used to store water for community use.
(noun.) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; 'an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival'.
(noun.) a large or extra supply of something; 'a reservoir of talent'.
整理:塞尔瓦托--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.
(n.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
希拉里校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Basin, cistern, tank.
整理:塞丽娜
解釋/意思:
n. a place where anything is kept in store: a place where water and other liquids are stored for use.—Also v.t.
埃琳娜整理
例句/造句/用法:
- The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It was as if some reservoir of black emotion had burst within him, and swamped him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- From the bottom of the cylinder a tube runs down into the well or reservoir, and water from the well has access to the cylinder through another outward-moving valve. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A vacuum is produced in this reservoir by the use of an air pump, while the acid is being constantly stirred. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A reservoir containing highly compressed air is fixed on the diver’s back, which supplies him with air by a self-regulating apparatus at a pressure corresponding to his depth. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is possible to employ it as a kind of reservoir of anecdotes to be drawn on to inculcate special moral lessons on this virtue or that vice. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Water to be frozen is placed in a vessel connected by a pipe to a reservoir containing sulphuric acid. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The labours of others have raised for us an immense reservoir of important facts. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Usually a leak in a dam or reservoir occurs near the bottom. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- This air passing through a train pipe connected by hose couplings between cars charges an auxiliary reservoir under each car. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A series of holes can be punched round the lower edge of a fruit can, thus affording a distributing reservoir. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The sea is a vast reservoir of potash, and seaweed, especially the giant kelp, absorbs large quantities of this potash. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- When he wishes to ascend he simply inflates his dress from the reservoir. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- If a reservoir has a depth of 100 feet, the pressure exerted upon each square foot of its floor is 62. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- These cranes, adapted for the lifting and carrying of enormous loads, were worked by hydraulic pressure obtained from elevated tanks or reservoirs, as above indicated. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Artificial reservoirs are usually constructed on the near outskirts of a town in order that the frictional force lost in transmission may be reduced to a minimum. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In some cities where the water is very hard, as in Columbus, Ohio, it is softened and filtered at public expense, before it leaves the reservoirs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The crippling stones of the pavement, with their many little reservoirs of mud and water, had no footways, but broke off abruptly at the doors. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The English system consists more in the use of extended and successive reservoirs or beds of sand alone, or aided by the use of the sulphate. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Does it bring it to its reservoirs in the most economic way possible, and is there any legitimate excuse for the scarcity of water which many communities face in dry seasons? 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Municipal improvements were undertaken in Panama and Colon and the various settlements in the Canal Zone, such as the construction of reservoirs, pavements and a system of modern roads. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Touched by such superfluity of simple confidence in a woman of her mature years, I opened the ample reservoirs of my nature and absorbed it all. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- These are practically small steel reservoirs full of water and connecting with the city pipes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In just as careful a manner, the size and the strength of municipal reservoirs and pumps must be calculated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The Bursting of Dams and Reservoirs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- But as a substitute for such tanks or reservoirs he invented the _Accumulator_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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