| 词汇 | tributary |
| 释义 | tributary noun[ C ] uk /ˈtrɪb.jə.tər.i/ us /ˈtrɪb.jə.ter.i/ a river or stream that flows into a larger river or a lake: （河流或湖泊的）支流 tributary ofThe Indre is a lesser tributary of the Loire. Parts of watercourses artesian well backwater basin confluence drainage basin estuarine firth interbasin interchannel lock lock-keeper meander midstream mooring mouth narrows reach spring subbasin water table tributary | American Dictionarytributary noun[ C ] us/ˈtrɪb·jəˌter·i/ a river or stream that flows into a larger river or lake: The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River Examples of tributarytributary They conducted regional trade, including the tributary trade, using their own networks. He is particularly good at showing how a variety of literary and musical tributaries flowed into the blues. The kingdom, whose origins were tributary, wishes to encourage the formation of an obligation of gift-giving. Parts of it were traced over the boundaries between thanas and districts, other parts followed the course of large rivers and their tributaries. The position of parties late in the decade is primarily tributary of their performance in the first multiparty election conducted in the early 1990s. Their work will coincide with changing social attitudes, but they confine themselves to a tributary or a ghetto. Side arms occur from the flooding of tributary valleys when the cooling lake was formed by darning a river. Then, with continued growth, the systemic venous tributaries are committed to the right side of the developing atrial segment. Some groundwater systems involve intimate connection with surface supplies (so-called 'tributary groundwater') while others recharge from rainfall on the surface. Each transect began from the house nearest the river or major tributary and continued directly towards the nearest waterway. Scholars have been reluctant to consider corporate identities beyond the lineage and tributary modes of social and political organization. Alliances of protection that were created during succession disputes frequently resulted in dependent or tributary relationships. This incorporation of the systemic venous tributary into the atrioventricular junction occurs prior to formation of the lung buds and the pulmonary venous plexus. Interlocking aggregations of kindreds occupy a river system and its tributaries. In addition, these results demonstrate that there is little movement of eels between the tributary and the main river. 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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