单词 | silt |
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音标 | [silt] |
解释 | n.淤泥,淤沙 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n.淤泥,淤沙(loose sedimentary material) 【考】 artery : plaque / channel : silt(血小板阻碍动脉/淤 泥阻碍河道) 【例】 The harbor is being choked up with silt. |
字源 | silt (n.) mid-15c., originally "sediment deposited by seawater," probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian and Danish sylt "salt marsh"), or from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch silte, sulte "salt marsh, brine," from Proto-Germanic *sultjo- (cognates: Old English sealt, Old High German sulza "saltwater," German Sulze "brine"), from PIE *sal- (see salt (n.)). silt (v.) "to become choked with silt" (of river channels, harbors, etc.), 1799, from silt (n.). Related: Silted; silting. |
不择手段背单词 | n. 淤泥(大小介于沙和泥之间的非常细小的微粒构成的沉淀性物质) 【类】artery: plaque = channel: silt斑沉积阻碍动脉血流动 = 淤泥沉积阻碍河道水流动 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】salt soil (海底)含盐的淤泥;音:沙土,稀土 |
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