Amazon是什么意思？

Amazon

英['æməzən] 美['æməzən]

• n. 亚马逊河（南美洲大河），蜂鸟，无乳腺者；

例句

• They were exploring the Amazon jungle. 他们正对亚马逊丛林进行勘察。
• I was absolutely terrified when I canoed up the Amazon. 当我划着独木舟沿亚玛逊河逆流而上时,我真是害怕得很.
• Today's anacondas, for example, are known to gulp down caimans in the Amazon. " 比如, 据说在亚马逊河一带, 水莽 会一口吞下一只凯门鳄.
• Amazon's challengers come from two directions. Amazon挑战来自两个方面.
• Gallery: Tropical Forest Wildlife A scarlet macaw is caught munching a snack in Brazil's Amazon forest. 热带的雨林野生动物图片.深红色金刚鹦鹉被捕捉大声咀嚼一些点心在巴西的亚马逊热带雨林.
• Gazetteer South America: Amazon , Orinoco, and coastal river drainages of the Guianas. 南美洲: 圭亚那的亚马逊河, 奥里诺科河与海岸河流域.
• It involves pertrolian ( petroleum ) pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon between 1964 and 1990. 它涉及了1964年到1990年的石油污染在亚马孙河.
• Many people, even some within the company, thought this would cannibalise Amazon's own sales. 许多人, 甚至是公司里的一些人, 认为这是在瓜分Amazon自己的销售额.
• Too much rain is the problem of the equatorial lands in the Amazon and Congo basins. 雨水过多是亚马逊河与刚果河流域赤道地区的大问题.
• Operation Amazon is timed to coincide with the start of the dry season. 拯救亚马孙河的行动安排在了旱季来临之际。

英语六级真题

Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate changes have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia, but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
More than paradise lost, a perishing rain forest could trigger a domino effect - sending winds and rains kilometers off course and loading the skies with even greater levels of greenhouse gases - that will be felt far beyond the Amazon basin.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （古希腊故事中的）亚马孙族女战士
  In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a tribe of women who were very good at fighting.
• N-COUNT
  高大强悍的女人
  People sometimes refer to a tall, strong woman as an Amazon .
  例句
  In China Grace Thompson observed the great variety of loads that were carried by 'slim, erect but muscular Amazons'. 在中国，格雷丝·汤普森看见“苗条、挺直而强健的女人们”携带着各种物品。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a large strong and aggressive woman
  2. mainly green tropical American parrots