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词汇 ravine
释义 ravine
noun[ C ]
uk /rəˈviːn/ us /rəˈviːn/
a deep narrow valley with steep sides峡谷,深谷
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geography: valleys
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arroyo
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cirque
cwm
dale
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gorge
gulch
gully
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valley
wadi

ravine | American Dictionary


ravine
noun[ C ]
us/rəˈvin/
a deep, narrow valley with steep sides

Examples of ravine


ravine
Then one of his men brought news that the new car had gone off the road into a ravine and was a write-off.
In this valley there is u deep narrow ravine, in which runs a small stream which contains water during the whole year.
These upwarped areas show prominent gullies and ravine development.
As the party followed a road down a narrow path into the ravines, several hundred armed villagers suddenly appeared blocking their advance.
Separation between neighbouring plots was between 10 and 100 m, using roads or ravines as natural boundaries.
In this regard, the role of groundwater recharging structures, such as check dams, farm ponds, percolation tanks, and ravine reclamation structures, is crucial.
The theatre of war was dotted with ridges and hills and dissected by numerous ravines, nightmarish to a conventional but ideal for a guerrilla army.
The contract left the ravines and hills + a substantial and growing part of the city + for later.
It is a soft rock, probably consolidated volcanic ash, said to be extracted from a cave in a ravine by means of rasping.
In the study area it covers low-altitude mountains (200-300 m) and ravines.
Eventually most of the population from the different villages, expecting to be attacked, either fled or assembled in the ravines to offer some kind of resistance.
These chains of mountains are broken by numerous and steep canyons, narrow ravines and streams, the water beds of which are dry most of the year.
Watershed treatment typically is through afforestation, construction of percolation tanks, farm ponds, check dams, ravine reclamation structures, boulder checks, rubble checks, and vegetative checks for in-situ moisture conservation.
It is not much fun on a mystery tour if one ends up in a ravine.
From the
Hansard archive

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Whilst they were out skiing they had an accident: they fell down a deep ravine.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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