amazonian
the Amazon
noun
uk /ˈæm.ə.zən/ us /ˈæm.ə.zɑːn/
a major river in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, and one of the longest rivers in the world: 亚马逊河
The source of the Amazon is a stream in the Peruvian Andes.亚马逊河的源头是秘鲁安第斯山脉的一条溪流。
A guide tells us the annual rise in the height of the River Negro, a tributary of the Amazon, had reached 30 metres.一位向导告诉我们，亚马逊河的支流内格罗河的水位每年上涨30米。
The expedition of Bolivian, Colombian, and Argentine scientists is part of a year-long census of freshwater dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco river basin.
As quite a young child, I pored over encyclopedias and geography books: was the Mississippi-Missouri really the longest river, or was it the Nile or the Amazon?
The Slovenian became the first person to swim the entire 3,000-mile length of the Amazon, having braved crocodiles, piranhas and toothpick fish.
So why was I drifting down the Amazon with a wounded guide and no map?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Watercourses & waterfalls
arroyo
beck
bourne
brook
canalization
cascade
cataract
Congo
crick
Euphrates
gulch
maelstrom
plunge pool
raceway
rapids
rill
riverbed
riverine
waterfall
waterway
a tropical region of South America through which the Amazon River flows, including parts of Peru, Colombia, and Brazil: 亚马逊平原
But how will the Amazon respond to future climate change?但是，亚马逊地区将如何应对未来的气候变化？
In the Amazon, water levels vary through the year.在亚马逊地区，水位一年四季都在变化。
Brazil's new environment minister takes office today in the middle of a spat over an apparent recent increase in deforestation in the Amazon region.
Sister Dorothy was shot while defending land in the Amazon.
They sit right beside the Amazon, the planet's largest tropical rainforest and river basin.
As North American farmers plant less soya, South American farmers clear more of the Amazon to fill the demand.

Examples from literature

At length, the officer and the amazon turned their horses' heads on their backward journey. 
Her appointments, however, were those rather of an amazon, or goddess of the woods. 
I could not help laughing at the idea of my tall, awkward master, a knight-errant to this queen of the amazons. 
The first greeting of one amazon to the other is to slap her face. 
There was here another laugh at the expense of the hero who had received this amazon's assistance.