embankments是什么意思？

embankments

英[ɪm'bæŋkmənts] 美[ɪm'bæŋkmənts]

• n. （道路的）路堤，（河流的）岸堤( embankment的名词复数 )；

例句

• By strengthening the embankments they secured the village from floods. 他们加固河堤让村子免受洪水之灾.
• The work consisted of throwing up embankments and installing water turbine pumps. 这项工作包括快速建起堤坝和安装涡轮水泵.
• These tiny debris - flow deposits formed on freshly excavated embankments of the California Aqueduct. 这些细小的泥石流沉积是在新开凿的加利福尼亚渠的大堤上形成的.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （公路、铁路等的）路堤;（河、海等的）堤，堤岸
  An embankment is a thick wall of earth that is built to carry a road or railway over an area of low ground, or to prevent water from a river or the sea from flooding the area.
  例句
  They climbed a steep embankment. 他们爬上了陡峭的堤岸。 ...a railway embankment. 铁路路堤