英语单词 | irrigation |
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英美音标 | 英 [ˌɪrɪ'ɡeɪʃn] 美 [ˌɪrɪ'ɡeɪʃn] |
中文释义 | n.灌溉;[医]冲洗 |
英语例句 | (1) Water is channelled through a series of irrigation canals. (2) We used the money to set up an irrigation project. (3) Irrigation is needed to make crops grow in dry regions. (4) If not well managed, irrigation can be harmful. (5) Irrigation is important for farming. (6) Never try irrigation if the eardrum is broken. |
中文例句 | (1) 把水引入一系列灌溉渠中。 (2) 我们把钱用在兴建灌溉工程上了。 (3) 干旱地区需要灌溉才能使作物生长。 (4) 如果管理不善,灌溉还可能有害处。 (5) 灌溉对农业是非常重要的。 (6) 如果耳膜破了,千万不要尝试这种冲洗法。 |
vocabulary简明 | Irrigation is the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture. If you want to start a strawberry farm in the desert, irrigation will be necessary. |
vocabulary扩展 | Irrigation comes from the Latin for "moist" or "wet," but it means the purposeful wetting of something. We wouldn’t really say that a storm provides irrigation (unless we were poetically trying to personify the storm). Irrigation systems are often complex combinations of canals, channels, and hoses. The word irrigation is also used in medicine to describe the process of washing out a wound before dressing it. |
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