| 单词 | mist-belt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmist-belt mist-belt n. a region in which mist and high humidity are so common that they have a notable effect on vegetation and agriculture; esp. any of several areas in the eastern foothills of the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa, lying mainly between 1100 and 1500 metres above sea level; (also) any of several mountainous regions extending from south-eastern Egypt to the Horn of Africa; these areas collectively. ΚΠ 1902 Proc. Royal Colonial Inst. 33 87 What is called the ‘mist belt’ throughout Natal gets forty-five to fifty inches [of rain]. 1951 Archeol. & Nat. Resources Natal (Univ. Natal) 56 The agricultural significance of these local scarps has given rise to a specific term, namely the ‘mist belt’, in which are to be found most of the wattle plantations, mixed-dairy farms and horticultural nurseries of Natal. 1988 S. Afr. 1987–8: Official Yearbk. (S. Afr. Bureau for Information) 9 In the summer rainfall region, light orographic rains are common along the windward slopes of the eastern escarpment. Lower down, at heights of 1,100 to 1,500 m, orographic lifting of the moist air causes what is known as the ‘mist belt’. 2009 H. N. Le Houérou Bioclimatol. & Biogeogr. Afr. i. 52 In the mountains that run parallel to the SW shores of the Red Sea,..there is a more or less continuous mist belt between 600 and 1,800m elevation... In Somalia, S. Yemen and Hadramaout, this mist belt is the exclusive habitat of Frankincense trees. < as lemmas |
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