英语释义

• lying below the normal level;

  "a low-lying desert"

• having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level;

  "low-lying clouds"

片语

low-lying neighborhoods其实智能遥控钓鱼船低洼地区

low-lying area低洼地区

low-lying energy低位能带

low-lying resonance低位共振能阶

low-lying land低洼地

low-lying spectra低能谱

low-lying areas低洼地区

low-lying peneplain低位準平原

low-lying district低洼小区

英汉例句

• about 80% of historic new orleans was covered with water after the levees designed to protect it suffered 53 individual failures, and the low-lying city was inundated.

  在保护新奥尔良的堤坝损失了53个之后，这座历史名城的80%被水覆盖，地势低洼的城市被淹没。

• their numbers might be small, but this is the event that foreshadows the likely mass displacement of people from coastal cities and low-lying regions as a result of rising sea levels.

  虽然他们的人数不多，但是，这个事件预示着，海平面的升高可能将导致海岸城市和地势低洼地区的居民大批迁移。

• in many low-lying areas, the storms surged with waves of about two metres flooded many homes.

  在许多地势低洼的地区，暴雨造成两米高的浪，淹没了许多房屋。

• up to 500, 000 lost their lives, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the ganges delta.

  丧生的原因主要是由于风暴潮淹没了大多数恒河三角洲低洼的岛屿。

• low-lying padang is seen as vulnerable to a tsunami and its residents have been trained to flee to higher ground along designated routes when an alert is sounded.

  地势低洼的巴东看来易受海啸袭击，当地居民已受过训练，一旦警报响起，他们就会按指定路线撤离至地势较高处。

• nuclear planners clearly did not appreciate how bad things could get on a low-lying coast in a seismic zone; and poor planning is part of the problem.

  核能规划者们显然未能认识到在震区地势低洼的海岸边，情况能够变得多糟；而拙劣的设计正是问题的一部分。

• the countries most concerned are those where children are already dying in substantial numbers: sub-saharan africa, asia, in particular bangladesh, and low-lying island states in the pacific.

  最令人担忧的莫过于那些儿童死亡数原本就高的国家和地区：撒哈拉以南非洲、亚洲，特别是孟加拉和地势低洼的太平洋岛国。

• hundreds of dead bodies are being found among the buildings, cars and ships swept over the low-lying rice fields by the tsunami.

  数以百计的尸体从倒塌的建筑物下面挖出，汽车和轮船被海啸沖击到了低洼的稻田里。

• grants will be used to protect people and land in low-lying regions; prepare for changing weather patterns; and fight drought and increase food security in drought-affected regions.

  赠款将用来保护低地地区的人口和土地，为不断变化的天气模式作好準备，抵抗干旱和增加受干旱影响的地区的粮食安全。

• across the pacific, scores of countries were on tsunami alert, with experts expressing particular concern about low-lying islands.

  太平洋沿岸的很多国家发布了海啸预警，专家表示，应该特别注意哪些地势低洼的海岛。

• the waters swamped low-lying suburbs, tore ferries from their moorings and cars from their parking bays, and turned brisbane’s business district into a ghost town.

  洪水淹没了低洼的郊区，没过了停泊着的渡轮和停车场的汽车，把布里斯班的商业区变成了一座无人的城镇。

• even in low-lying iraq, british forces found that their lynx helicopters, designed to carry a dozen soldiers, could manage one passenger at best during the summer heat.

  甚至在地势低洼的伊拉克，英军也发现自己的山猫（lynx）直升机——设计载客人数为12名——在夏季的热浪中最好只带一名乘客。

• cloud streets form when low-lying clouds are interrupted by an object such as an island. similar patterns occur in the wind flow downstream of airplane wings.

  当低垂的云层被岛屿一类的物体所阻碍时就会形成云街，飞机在飞行时机翼后方的气流也会形成类似的漩涡。

• set in the low-lying ganges–brahmaputra river delta, bangladesh sits in a perfect storm of climactic conditions.

  处在低洼的恒河—雅鲁藏布江三角洲地区，孟加拉国坐落在具有形成完美风暴的条件下。

• in addition to an increase in flooding, sea-level rise could also result in the permanent flooding of low-lying small island states in the caribbean, the indian ocean and the pacific ocean.

  除了增大发生洪灾的可能性以外，海平面的上升也可能导致加勒比海、印度洋以及太平洋的一些低洼的小岛国永久的被淹没。

• up to 500,000 lost their lives, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the ganges delta.

  在这场灾难中有50万丧生。丧生的原因主要是由于风暴潮淹没了大多数恒河三角洲低洼的岛屿。

• in low-lying areas, people will watch the steady retreat of arctic ice, a precursor to rising sea levels, with increasing apprehension.

  北极冰层的持续融化是海平面上升的前兆，低洼地区的人们对此将越来越担忧，并密切关注着。

• nutrients from the two great rivers of ganges and brahmaputra feed the soil of the paddies in the low-lying ganges delta.

  来自两条大河，恒河和雅鲁藏布江的养分滋润着地势低洼的恒河三角洲的稻谷。

• farmers frequently level off such gullies after harvesting in the fall, he said, and then replant the same low-lying areas year after year, leaving them susceptible to further erosion.

  他说，农民常常会在丰收之后的秋天铲平这些深沟，然后年复一年地在这些同样低洼的地区反复耕种，这就进一步加重了土地侵蚀。

• unlike the sandbars of the eastern us coast, low-lying pacific islands are made of coral debris.

  不同于美国东海岸的沙洲，太平洋低地势岛屿是由珊瑚残骸构成的。

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