| 单词 | embankment |
| 释义 | embankment (ɪmbæŋkmənt ) Word forms: embankments countable noun [oft in names] 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. They climbed a steep embankment. ...a railway embankment. ...Victoria Embankment. Synonyms: bank, ridge, mound, causeway Collocations: railway embankment There is at least one family of foxes in the railway embankment behind us. Times, Sunday Times (2007) He crawled down the railway embankment to get it working. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Follow the railway embankment where the vines grow and you will find it. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Here the path wobbles above, up on the old railway embankment. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Some miles further on, the belt of fields narrowed beside the river and I could see beyond them to the railway embankment. The Crossing-Place (1993) The nine carriages crashed off the track and down a steep embankment. Times, Sunday Times He raised his head and saw the steep embankment wall behind us. Times, Sunday Times Giving them the space they need isn't really an option — swerve an inch too far and you'll roll down a steep embankment, where the wreckage would lie unseen until dawn. Times, Sunday Times With his last round of ammunition he struck the remaining vehicle, causing it to crash down a steep embankment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There they found the crashed helicopter, lying on its side on a steep embankment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 堤 Japanese: 堤防 |
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