英语释义

• partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried

片语

bituminous peat沥青质泥炭

hill peat丘陵泥炭

subalpine peat亚高山泥炭

peat bog[地理] 泥炭沼，泥炭沼泽

peat moss泥煤苔（泥煤的主成分）

peat tar泥煤焦油

terrestrial peat陆相泥煤

bog peat沼泽泥炭

peat soil泥沼质土

medium peat中位泥炭

英汉例句

• The species of microbes were also similar to those found in other polar environments, such as Arctic peat or tundra.

  所发现的微生物种类也与其它极地环境如北极的泥炭或苔原相似。

• Inland are fertile lands, expansive peat moors, and in the south, hills.

  内陆是肥沃的土地有着广阔的泥炭沼泽，而在南部却是山丘。

• The RSPB also claims now that installation of the turbines could release significant carbon dioxide from the peat bogs affected, undermining the turbines' potential to combat global warming.

  RSPB现在还声称，风力涡轮机的安装会从受到影响的泥炭沼泽中释放出大量的二氧化碳，这样就会削弱并破坏涡轮机解决全球变暖问题的潜力。

• Whether plunging through a steep-sided gorge or oozing through a peat bog, water is a constant presence in the park.

  无论是从陡峭的峡谷中跃出，还是从泥炭沼泽中渗出，水总是在公园中无处不见。

• Some of the most beautiful areas of England are releasing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year because of damage to peat bogs, environment watchdogs have warned.

  环境监测人员警告因为泥炭沼泽地受到破坏，英国的一些最美丽的地区每年正在向大气排放数百万吨的二氧化碳。

• As the peat burns, an area that once trapped carbon dioxide has started releasing vast quantities of it.

  大量的泥炭正在燃烧，这处曾经吸收二氧化碳的地方，如今却产生了大量二氧化碳。

• Both the peat and the wood by-products burned by this plant are harvested sustainably.

  该工厂可以持续地得到所燃烧的泥炭和木材副产品。

• There is probably some double-counting in the two sets of figures, because many peat bogs are found in forests, and are thus drained as those forests are cleared.

  在这两组数据中很可能出现了重复计算，因为许多泥炭湿地都是在森林里，因此在森林被砍伐的同时它们也被排干了。

• Ridges of peat and pools of dark, acidic water form a patterned peatland near Moon Point.

  月亮峰附近，隆起的泥炭和黑色水潭、酸性水形成有图案的泥炭地。

• But green groups say that hardly helps, since peat bogs have varying depths, and draining a shallow part will erode the rest.

  但是环保团体说，这基本没什么用，泥炭沼泽深度不一，排干浅层将破坏其它部分。

• Vast stretches of peat bog surrounding the city have dried out and caught fire covering Moscow with choking smog.

  城市周围大面积分布的泥炭沼泽已经干涸着火，将莫斯科笼罩在令人窒息的烟雾中。

• Most ancient peat forests die gradually, leaving only spotty evidence of what grew there.

  大多数古代的泥炭森林都逐渐消失，只留下曾经存在过的零星证据。

• Burning peat and vegetation produces smoke rich in tiny airborne particles.

  燃烧的泥炭和植被产生的烟雾中充满微小的尘埃粒子。

• The researchers measured the retreat of the permafrost border byobserving hummocks known as 「palsas, 」 which form naturally over icecontained in the soil of northern peat bogs.

  研究人员通过观测被称为泥炭丘的小丘来测量永冻带边界北退的程度，泥炭丘是在北部泥炭沼泽含冰的土壤上自然形成的。

• Other natural resources to be found in Belarus include peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, and clay.

  白俄罗斯其他已被探明的自然资源包括泥炭、石油、天然气、页巖、石灰石、泥灰土、白垩、沙、砂砾、黏土。

• One of the big risks for any construction on peat bogs is that the disrupted drainage will cause whole hillsides of waterlogged or dried out peat to slide and eventually oxidise.

  不管在泥炭沼泽上进行何种施工，最大的风险是扰乱排水后将会造成整个山坡被水淹没，或导致泥炭干涸而崩塌滑坡，且最终氧化。

• Shrouded in white smoke, the peat soil still smoulders under the blackened tree-stumps.

  笼罩在白烟中的泥炭土仍闷在一个个烧黑的树桩下。

• The world’s smallest fish has been discovered in the peat swamps of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra.

  世界上最小的鱼在印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛上的泥炭沼泽中被发现。