embankment
embankment — 名詞
- embankmentsingular
- embankmentsplural
1. a built-up ridge of soil or stone that keeps water in place or lifts a road or r
堤岸；路堤
用土石築起的坡堤
a built-up ridge of soil or stone that keeps water in place or lifts a road or rail line over low ground.
After the flood, workers raised the embankment beside the rice fields.
洪水過後，工人把稻田旁的堤岸加高。
raise the embankment beside + [place]
The train ran along a high embankment above the wet ground.
火車沿著高高的路堤前進，下方是一片濕地。
railway use: along a high embankment
Children watched ducks from the grassy embankment by the canal.
孩子們站在運河旁長滿草的堤岸上看鴨子。
Sandbags protected the old embankment when the river began to rise.
河水開始上漲時，沙包保護了那座老舊的堤岸。
protect an embankment from rising water
- river embankment
- railway embankment
- raise the embankment
- grassy embankment
- ditch
a hollow cut into the ground instead of a raised bank
文法句型
embankment along/by + river, canal, or track
on top of + the embankment
raise/repair/strengthen + an embankment
用法筆記
Usually refers to a man-made raised side beside a river, road, or railway, not to a natural hill or riverbank.
常見錯誤
同根字
- embank動詞C2