oxbow
英 ['ɒksbəʊ]
美 ['ɑks,bo]
- n. 牛軛U字形部分；U字形彎曲
- adj. 呈U字形彎曲的
中文詞源
oxbow 牛軛湖，河流曲灣ox,牛，bow,弓，軛。比喻用法。
英文詞源
- oxbow (n.)
- also ox-bow, mid-14c., "wooden collar for an ox," from ox + bow (n.1). Meaning "semicircular bend in a river" is from 1797, American English (New England); meaning "curved lake left after an oxbow meander has been cut off by a change in the river course" is from 1898. The reference is to similarity of shape.
雙語例句
- 1. City is located in the deep basin Heilonggang Hutuo OXBOW for the alluvial plain.
- 深州市地處黑龍港流域滹沱河故道,為衝積平原.
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- 2. A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow.
- 截彎取直水道河流穿越U形河曲的頸項處而截出新的水道.
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- 3. Oxbow lakes, the floodplain, dry streams and tributaries, waves beating against the shore.
- 牛軛湖, 河漫灘, 幹流和支流, 浪濤擊打的河岸.
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