| 释义 |
dammed, ppl. a.|dæmd|
[f. dam v.1 + -ed.]
Furnished with a dam; obstructed or confined by a dam (usually with up).
1664Dryden Ind. Queen iv. i, Like dammed-up streams. 1879R. J. Atcherley Boërland 97 This race was intended to bring water from a dammed creek. 1899Westm. Gaz. 17 May 8/1 In a dammed-up glacial valley. 1904W. M. Gallichan Fishing Spain 115, I made a few casts with the fly over a dammed-up pool. 1946Nature 12 Oct. 527/1 While, however, we have had a partial moratorium on the creations of fundamental science.., we have undoubtedly a new stock of dammed-up ideas. |