网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 low-lying
释义 low-lying
adjective
uk /ˌləʊˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/ us /ˌloʊˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
Low-lying land is at or near sea level: (土地)低洼的,低的
People living in low-lying areas were evacuated because of the floods.居住在低洼地区的人们因洪水而被疏散。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

having a small distance from the bottom to the top
lowThe garden was surrounded by a low hedge.
shortHe's much shorter than I thought.
shallowStay in the shallow end of the pool, please.
low-lyingLow-lying areas are prone to flooding.
squatI wish they'd tear down that squat block of flats.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Coasts & beaches
barrier reef
beachcomb
beachcomber
beachcombing
beachfront
esplanade
frontage
groin
prom
riviera
sand
shingly
shore
strand
swash
the Amalfi Coast
the seashore
the seaside
tide pool
tombolo

low-lying | American Dictionary


low-lying
adjective
us/ˈloʊˈlaɪ·ɪŋ/
at a level that is not much higher than the level of the ocean

Examples of low-lying


low-lying
The sands are mostly well drained but low-lying areas accumulate sufficient clay and fines to retain water for periods after rainfall.
A scheme introduced in the 1940s to provide domestic water supplies diverted natural mountain streams and destroyed snail habitats in the low-lying areas.
Excitation and decay of low-lying nuclear states in a dense plasma produced by a subpicosecond laser pulse.
It is a low-lying area and all the agriculture in this zone requires irrigation.
The interior is very low-lying, and in the wet season is covered with water, being extensively used for rice farming.
The obtained increase in hot electron temperature can be used to enhance excitation efficiency for low-lying nuclear levels.
Flood-tolerant deep-water rice can be grown in low-lying lands in the flood season.
This lithofacies represents deposition in low-lying ponds or lakes where fine sediments were preferentially deposited under still water conditions.
Late arrival and uncertain weather meant that investigations had to be completed quickly and the 'low-lying sun' restricted photography.
The interest in these spectra bears on efforts to demonstrate excitation and decay of low-lying nuclear states in the dense laser-produced plasmas.
The units of this facies are visualized to be deposits of sheet flows in low-lying areas.
During times of population growth especially, cultivating flat, low-lying ground must have appealed whatever the risks.
The remainder is a double-wide vortex and a low-lying counter-rotating vortex, if the remaining quasi-streamwise vortex segments reconnected viscously.
Floods may completely submerge a crop for extended periods in low-lying areas and in the river deltas.
As a general rule, the presence of low-lying excited electronic states induces efficient electron relaxation and therefore short electron correlation times ts.
See all examples of low-lying
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/23 3:44:08