| 词汇 | butte |
| 释义 | butte noun[ C ] uk /bjuːt/ us /bjuːt/ a hill that has steep sides and a flat top（四周陡峭，顶部平坦的）小方山 ©//www.facebook.com/pete.lomchid/Moment/GettyImages Geography: hills & mountains acclivity alpine tundra craggy esker highlands hillock mesa mid-ocean ridge motte Mount Kilimanjaro Mount Rainier pike precipitous scarp slope spur steep the Adirondack Mountains the Alaska Range the Alps The farm lay on either side of a small stream which ran among the buttes and green mesas of the foothills. Then slowly and sadly the train resumed its march and mounted to the summit of the butte. These setbacks made them late in their arrival at the scene of coming toil, but gradually the distant buttes grew plainer as they moved on steadily toward them over the crunching sands, so hot and barren. We left the rugged butte region behind us, and entered a tract of country quite unlike anything we had found before. We made a nice run of eighteen miles on a smooth, shallow river, with broken, picturesque low cliffs and isolated buttes everywhere. butte | American Dictionarybutte noun[ C ] us/bjut/ a hill that has steep sides and a flat top Examples of buttebutte Although there is no water source on the butte, there are ruins of small cliff dwellings in the higher regions of the butte. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Two particularly significant sites, one located atop a butte and one located near its base, have yielded artifacts such as tools and bison bones. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The trail passes below these buttes and descends into a boulder-strewn plateau. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are also several deciduous forests, canyons, buttes, and a few large natural lakes and rivers throughout the region. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Both pediment flatirons and talus flatirons are associated with the scarps of a cuesta, mesa, or butte and with their tips directed towards the scarp. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are occasionally interrupted by buttes and escarpments. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some of these glaciers seem to come from material sitting around mesas and buttes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The massif was shaped by hundreds of millions of years of riverine erosion to yield diverse bluff and butte landforms. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Because of their distinctive shapes, buttes are frequently landmarks in plains and mountainous areas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The country was well watered by pure streams fringed by belts of timber and the high buttes were clothed with grass to their summits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Named in association with the 2410 m butte of the same name on the west side of the glacier. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On the eastern side of the county, it is mostly characterized by large buttes of much older volcanic origin. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Buttes are formed when most of a layer(s) of rocks are removed from an area. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Artesian springs at the base of the butte have attracted people during both prehistoric and historic times. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The name comes from the prominent butte (3,428 ft 1,045 m) three miles (5 km) to the south. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of butte 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. |
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