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词汇 glen
释义 glen
noun[ C ]
uk /ɡlen/ us /ɡlen/
a deep, narrow valley, especially among mountains: (尤指群山中的)峡谷,幽谷
the glens of Scotland苏格兰的幽谷
Glen Maye湄野谷
 
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Geography: valleys
abyss
arroyo
canyon
chasm
cirque
corrie
cwm
dale
defile
dell
gulch
gully
hanging valley
hollow
inter-valley
landform
rift valley
vale
valley
wadi

Examples of glen


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In the eight years since then, we have seen the human habitation in the glen rise by four houses with another three planned.
I was born alongside crofters who had been pushed down the glen in the clearances.
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The red deer had got down into a glen and had gone in front of a car.
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Future generations will have to live with a legacy of beautiful glens and valleys despoiled by ill-conceived private forestry developments.
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Serious floods have occurred on many occasions, but the damage is not always so permanent as it was in the glens on that evil night.
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The students at these universities are drawn from every corner of the country, the remotest glens and the humblest purlieus of the city.
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It got away to a very good start, because before cattle and mankind were cleared away from the glens there were abundant cattle.
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In those glens there is almost always an abundant supply of water to supply the power.
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If they were to do that, then the other glen would be outside the scheme altogether.
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You can summer thousands of beasts in the glens, but you cannot winter them.
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It is all very well to sing about the shieling in the glen.
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Does this include the schoolmaster, who may be living in a glen or other areas?
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But that stock does not wish to leave its own countryside and its own glens.
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I think that he used the slogan "power in the glens".
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I echo that suggestion—why not a body to take over a glen and stock it with cattle?
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