英语释义

1. a barrier preventing the flow of water or of loose solid materials (such as soil or snow)
a beaver dam an ice dam especially, civil engineering a barrier built across a watercourse for impounding (see impound sense 2) water

2. a barrier to check the flow of liquid, gas, or air

3. a body of water confined by a barrier

4. to provide or restrain with a barrier that prevents the flow of water to provide or restrain with a dam (see dam entry 1 sense 1a)
dam a river

5. to stop up block
damming up their emotions

6. the female parent of an animal and especially of a domestic animal
the foal's dam

7. dekameter

8. (Carl Peter) Henrik 1895–1976 Danish biochemist

9. to build a dam across (a river or stream)

10. the female parent of a domestic animal (as a dog or horse)

11. a barrier (as across a stream) to hold back a flow of water

12. to hold back or block with or as if with a dam
Leaves dammed the drains.

13. a female parent —used especially of a domestic animal

14. rubber dam — see dental dam

片语

Derwent Dams俯瞰德文特水坝

saddle dams马鞍水坝

tailing dams尾矿坝

mud dams泥坝

Dujiangyan Dams都江堰

dams foundation[水利] 坝基

similar dams面包机问答

Overwhelming Dams淹没水库

英汉例句

• Any massive invasion from the North could be stymied by releasing water from South Korean DAMS along the Han River, flooding areas the invaders have to cross.

  任何自北边来的大规模进攻都将能被韩国汉江沿线水坝释放的洪水沖溃，并淹没侵入所需要途经的地区。

• Drought conditions during most of the 21st century have forced water managers to plan for a day when the region「s vast system of DAMS and reservoirs no longer have enough water to store.

  21世纪大部分时间都是干旱条件的状况迫使水资源的管理者开始计划当该地区庞大的水坝和水库系统没有足够的水去储存时的打算。

• It is hyperactive in the world of water, not only at home but abroad-building DAMS in Africa and Pakistan, looking for land in Mozambique and the Philippines, diverting rivers for its own purposes.

  该国在水源领域的活动过于频繁，不仅国内如此，国外亦然——在非洲和巴基斯坦建设水坝、在莫桑比克和菲律宾寻找土地、为一己用途使河流改道。

• Pokhriyal plans to build 10 more DAMS over the next few years to fund his vision, but there may not be enough water in the area」s rivers to fill them: water levels are declining across the state.

  坡科瑞亚计划建造计划在未来的几年里建造10几座大坝来实现他的梦想，但是该地区的河流没有足够的水去填充大坝：整个州的水位都下降了。

• The lesson from DAMS is that big is not always beautiful.

  建造大坝的教训是：大的未不总是美好的。

• Clean water can be drawn for up to several months after the rains have fallen through pipes underneath the DAMS or by digging a hole in the sand.

  通过砂坝底下建造地下管道或者在沙中开挖蓄水洞，便可以在雨后连续几个月内抽取这些自然凈化过的水。

• You are usually sent as part of a team to help build schools, community centres, houses, Bridges, DAMS or latrines.

  你们往往可以作为队伍的一部分去参加学校、交流中心、房屋、桥梁、大坝或厕所的建设。

• Writing in the journal nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and DAMS works for people, but not nature.

  他们在《自然》杂志上撰文说，西方各国通过水库和水坝为人类保存水源只适用于人类，不适用于自然。

• The reason: in an age of global warming, DAMS are running dry.

  原因是在全球变暖的年代里，水坝可能会逐渐干涸。

• Scientists have long suspected that the world's DAMS can create their own weather, often bringing more rain.

  科学家们一直怀疑，世界上的水坝可以建立自己的气候，往往带来更多降雨。

• Concrete DAMS have performed very well when subjected to high intensity earthquakes as noted in this paper.

  正如本文提到的，混凝土大坝遭受高强度地震时，表现是很好的。

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head(Head)人名；(英)黑德

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clearad 清晰地；完全地

free(Free)人名；(英)弗里

unblock疏通（管道等），清除…的障碍；给……解禁；（桥牌中的）解封

unclog使畅通；清除油污；扫除…的阻碍

unplug去掉......的障碍物；拔去......的塞子或插头；暂时克制自己不用电子设备（非正式）；暂时放下日常生活的责任和义务（非正式）

unstop拔开塞子；除去障碍；拉出（风琴等的）音栓