fill dam，causey，[水] earth-filled dam，earth dam ；

[例句] 我们筑起土坝,防止洪水泛滥. We built banks of earth to hold back the flood waters.

[例句] 在道路、桥头等工程中,公路路堤和桥头土坝等基础刚度较小,与地基刚度相差不大. The rigidity of highway bank and dyke is small compared with the one of highway base.

clay，dirt，earth ；

[例句] 她捧起疏松的泥土，任其缓缓地从指间漏下。 She gathered loose soil and let it filter slowly through her fingers.

[例句] 从山上冲刷下来的泥土就要让水电大坝淤塞了。 The soil washed from the hills is silting up the hydroelectric dams.

china clay，porcelain clay ；

[例句] 矿产资源主要以钨矿 、 铅矿 、 锌矿和瓷土矿为主. Mineral resources are mainly tungsten ore, lead ore, zinc, and clay mineral - based.

[例句] 景德镇传统瓷土不同于任何其他类型的粘土. Jingdezhen classical porcelain is unlike any other clay.

taft，dike，windrow，mound，hillock ；

[例句] 高于100英尺的土堆都叫高山. A mountain is any hill 100 feet above sea level.

[例句] 马在这个石土堆的另一边, 看上去比先前更加恐惧. On the other side was the horse, more frightened than ever.

[动] earth pig，aardvark，erdvark ；

[例句] 雌土豚一般一年只产一仔. Female aardvarks typically give birth to one newborn each year.

[例句] 再近距离仔细观察就会发现, 土豚身上似乎还有其他动物的特征. On closer inspection, aardvark appears to include other animal features as well.

alluvium ；

[例句] 两个地点土壤母质为河流冲积土. The parent material for the two locations is river alluvial soil.

[例句] 土壤分类为河流冲积土发育的潮汐沙土, 砂壤土质地. The soil is classified to tidal sandy soil, derived from river alluvium with sandy loam texture.

imvite，montmorillonoid ；

[例句] 这种泥土是一种蓝青色胶质土,主要由蒙脱土和一些伊利土组成. The mud was a blue - gray plastic clay composed predominantly of montmorillonite with some illite.

[例句] 通过在聚丙烯中添加纳米蒙脱土的改性方法,开发了高模量聚丙烯专用料. High - modulus polypropylene compound was developed by means adding nano - meter montmorillonite to polypropylene.

local, colloquial expressions，local dialect，idiom，jargon ；

[例句] 他的叙述是方言和土语最成功的运用. His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.

[例句] 她说起土语来像个当地人. She slings the bat like a native.

twang，local accent，brogue ；

[例句] 你们一听爱尔兰人或者约克郡人的土音,就能辨别出他是哪里的人. You can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue.

puddle ；

[例句] 为什么还躺在一块被雨淋过的冰冷的胶土上? Why would a dog lie in a cold puddle in the freezing rain?

[口] potato，peanut(台语词，等于普通话中的花生)；

[农] subsoil ；

[例句] 底土层含水量较耕作层和心土层高, 且较稳定,含水量较为丰足. The soil moisture content of bottom layer was higher than and central layer, stabile and abundance.

khaki；

[例句] 报纸已变成土黄色了。 The paper has turned a muddy colour.

[例句] 油漆干了后，涂一层发红的土黄色乳胶漆。 Once the paint is dry, apply a coat of the red ochre emulsion paint.

regolith，mantlerock ；

[例句] 现在, 随着一层层的钢筋混凝 、 沙石和土被压实,路面也即将完工. Now, the road will be finished soon with the compaction of concrete, sandstones and earth.

agrology，pedology ；

[例句] 土壤学和气象学对了解植物生长的自然环境有帮助. Pedology and aerography may help students to understand the environments where plant growth.

cob brick，adobe ；

[例句] 所有构件都用空心陶土砖做基本原料. All the units employ hollow burned - clay blocks as the basic raw material.

[例句] 这个区域有大量砖瓦工程, 土砖工程. This area has a lot of masonry building , brick building, adobe building.

carclazyte，hargil ；

[例句] 在涂布纸中被广泛应用, 其使用量仅次于白土. In coated paper is widely used, second only to the clay.

[例句] 以物质A为反应物,白土为脱色物质,研究用反应-吸附的方法提高焦化柴油的质量. A coking gas oil was treated by clay refining processs in laboratory.

aardwolf，hyena ；

[例句] 那印地安人将他的长矛用力掷向那只土狼. The Indian hurled his spear at the coyote.

[例句] 狗 、 狼和土狼是同属. Dogs, wolves, and coyotes belong to the same genus.

bentonite ；

[例句] 皂土是一种可膨胀的土层粘土矿物. Bentonite is an expandable three - layer clay mineral.

[例句] 该洗涤工序排出的废水,同其重量的0.15%的胶性皂土混合. The waste liquor from this scouring step agitated with 0.15 % of its weight of colloidal bentonite.

autochthonal，sedentary ；

[例句] 可供选择的一种牧草是真正的英国肯特郡的土生的黑麦草. An alternative is genuine old pasture Kentish indigenous ryegrass.

[例句] 虽然许多上年纪的人仍然会说土生的苗语, 但最年轻的一代却只会说英语. While many elders still speak the native Hmong language, the youngest have replaced it with English.