| 词汇 | dust-bowl |
| 释义 | dust bowl noun[ C ] uk /ˈdʌst ˌbəʊl/ us /ˈdʌst ˌboʊl/ an area of land where the ground is very dry and where the air is often full of dust风沙干旱地区，干旱尘暴区 Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses alpine tundra brush bush Bushman desert heathland marginal land moor moorland mulga pasture plain Sahara the Gobi Desert tundra veld virgin wadi waste wasteland dust bowl | Business Englishdust bowl noun[ C ] ukus an area of land that is so dry that it is impossible to grow crops there: The bleak economy together with the agriculture disaster of the dust bowl meant many families were forced to leave. Examples of dust bowldust bowl When alluvial soil fills an estuary, when a dustbowl is created, when epidemics or epizootics occur, tremendous pressures are brought to bear upon living things. I would call attention to what produced the original dustbowl. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was what produced the dustbowl—unregulated, thoroughly greedy farming of the land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is also interesting that countries which have suffered a dustbowl have tried to reintroduce forestry and farming. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he not understand that these people view themselves as now becoming engulfed in a reservoir of despair, or as the dustbowl of society? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Soil erosion and dustbowl conditions set in and the desert gradually encroaches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After only some months, it has deteriorated to a dustbowl. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What produced the dustbowl there? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is dustbowl husbandry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Farming in the area was severely impacted by the dustbowl. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The diverting of so much water from the valley transformed it from an agricultural valley into a dustbowl. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are many lessons from history in every continent along these lines—the creation of great dust bowls and deserts, for example. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There, the arid dust bowls were transformed into prosperous and fertile areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is akin to the agricultural practice which led to dust bowls, where forests were ruthlessly cut down in pursuit of short-term profit without concern for the longer term. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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