| 单词 | watershed |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['wɔ:təʃed] |
| 解释 | n.分水岭,转折点 |
| 红宝书 | 【考】 反义词: ambiguity(含糊) |
| 字源 | watershed (n.) "line separating waters flowing into different rivers," 1803, from water (n.1) + shed in a topographical sense of "ridge of high ground between two valleys or lower ground, a divide," perhaps from shed (v.) in its extended noun sense of "the part of the hair of the head" (14c.). Perhaps a loan-translation of German Wasser-scheide. Figurative sense is attested from 1878. Meaning "ground of a river system" is from 1878. |
| 不择手段背单词 | n. 分水岭(标志着分界或过程改变的重要关头) 【记】water水, shed(v 脱落; n 分水岭) 【反】『ambiguity(n 含糊; 不明确)』; routine(n 例行事务) |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】water shed 流 |
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