embankment
/ɪmˈbæŋkmənt/ (bre, ipa) · /ɪmˈbæŋkmənt/ (ame, ipa) · /im-ˈbaŋk-mənt/ (ame, mw)
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。
- 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.