| 词汇 | waterfall |
| 释义 | waterfall noun[ C ] uk /ˈwɔː.tə.fɔːl/ us /ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ.fɑːl/ B1 water, especially from a river or stream, dropping from a higher to a lower point, sometimes from a great height瀑布 ooyoo/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages This tour takes in the area's best-known natural features, including the Gullfoss waterfall. "Just look at that waterfall! Isn't it amazing?" she marvelled.“看那瀑布！真是令人惊叹，不是吗？”她赞叹道。 Can you feel the spray from the waterfall? I couldn't hear what he was saying over the thunder of the waterfall.瀑布震天响，我听不清他说的话。 Watercourses & waterfalls amazon arroyo beck bourne brook canalization cascade Congo crick flume gorge gulch maelstrom Panama Canal plunge pool raceway rapids rill riverbed waterway It’s the largest waterfall in the world. One of the most amazing BASE jumps is the jump from Angel Falls in Venezuela, the world’s highest waterfall. People love to visit waterfalls. Some things in nature, like waterfalls, are beautiful. The Devil's Swimming Pool is on the edge of the waterfall. The name waterfall says it all – water falls from a high place to a lower place. Waterfalls are beautiful. We walked next to the river until we came to the waterfall. waterfall | American Dictionarywaterfall noun[ C ] us/ˈwɔ·t̬ərˌfɔl, ˈwɑt̬·ər-/ water from a river or stream falling over an edge of rock to a much lower level Examples of waterfallwaterfall Large, power-intensive industries were built close to waterfalls and assigned long-term power contracts with a substantial element of subsidized power supply. The alternative waterfall model resembles the spiral model, but has a more linear nature. It may instead mean that a bed shock in the form of a waterfall needs to be included in the analysis. The re-engineering methodology proposes a waterfall life cycle for carrying out the steps of reverse engineering, restructuring and forward engineering. We see gravity in action, as with waterfalls and sleigh riding. The only significant change in gradient is where the river crosses the graben-bounding fault at a waterfall. Nations were like individuals in that they were born, grew, and died, but both were equally like waves or waterfalls, changing physical, not spiritual, forms. The word kilk-r- for the sound made by the waterfall would commonly be used ai for living creatures only. The waterfall will become radiant in the moonlight. Darkness is also implicitly connected with invisibility, which contrasts with the visibility of the waterfall in moonlight. Visual micro-counterpoint is everywhere in nature, from a multifaceted cascading waterfall, to distinct layers of clouds moving at different speeds in the sky. Within time, the channel bed devolved into a series of steps, each characterized by a short, extremely steep waterfall-like zone of supercritical flow ending in a hydraulic jump. We may attend and respond to the sounds of the wind, or the rain, or the waterfall, but we do not imagine that these phenomena are communicating with us. For instance, if one looks for a while at a waterfall, and subsequently fixates a tree at eye-level near that waterfall, the tree appears to move upward. Most people understand immediately that it has something to do with light; others see it as ripples on water; one asked if it was to become a waterfall. 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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