oxbow是什么意思
- 英式英标[\'ɑks,bo]
- 美式音标[\'ɒksbəʊ]
n. 牛轭U字形部分；U字形弯曲
adj. 呈U字形弯曲的
中文词源
oxbow 牛轭湖，河流曲湾
ox,牛，bow,弓，轭。比喻用法。
英文词源
- 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.
实用例句
- 1. City is located in the deep basin Heilonggang Hutuo OXBOW for the alluvial plain.
- 深州市地处黑龙港流域滹沱河故道,为冲积平原.来自互联网
- 2. A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow.
- 截弯取直水道河流穿越U形河曲的颈项处而截出新的水道.来自互联网
- 3. Oxbow lakes, the floodplain, dry streams and tributaries, waves beating against the shore.
- 牛轭湖, 河漫滩, 干流和支流, 浪涛击打的河岸.来自互联网
