embankment

/im'bæŋkmәnt/ uk　 词频 #14695

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embankment 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 堤防, 筑堤

英文释义

n. a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection

embankment 的真实例句

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Brettler's hip clipped the embankment and he ended up face-down in the muck along the river bank.

—— 'London Falling': A teenage imposter, an aging gangster and a body in the Thames

Behind Wadmalaw Island, I found a place where I could slip down a mud embankment and lower myself into a canal called New Cut.

—— On Learning About the Enslaved Men Who Dug South Carolina’s Lowcountry Canals

The six-week trial heard Quinn stalked his victim, in her 30s, as she walked home, dragging her from the street down a motorway embankment.

—— Paul Quinn guilty of 2003 rape that saw innocent man jailed for 17 years

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