dykes

英 [daɪks]

美 [daɪks]

n.  堰; 堤; 坝; 渠; 沟; 壕沟; 女同性恋者(常含冒犯意)
dyke的复数

柯林斯词典

The spelling dike is also used, especially for meaning 1. 亦拼作 dike，尤用于义项1。


• 堤;堰;坝
  Adykeis a thick wall that is built to stop water flooding onto very low-lying land from a river or from the sea.
• 女子同性恋者
  Adykeis a lesbian.

双语例句

• The third sign is that those areas that are at or below the new sea level will refuse to drain unless pumping is done and dykes are in place.
  第三个迹象时那些不高于新海岸线的地区无法排水，除非用水泵抽并且建造堤坝。
• At the time I was a little discouraged, because no dykes were cruising me.
  当时我有少少的沮丧，因为没有拉拉看上我啦。
• So a few decades ago it was learned that if dykes were built around the marshes, a little fresh water could be pumped in, flooding the breeding areas.
  因此，几十年前，人们就意识到如果在沼泽地周围修建起堤坝，将一些淡水灌入沼泽地中，就可以把蚊子赖以生存的环境给冲刷掉。
• I have already mentioned the labour of the hedger and ditcher, of the builder of walls or dykes.
  我已提及了筑篱、挖沟、砌墙或建防护栏的劳动。
• All over the world, temperature-controlled concrete is used to build large-sized dykes and grout large-scale bases of high-rise buildings.
  世界各地大型水坝的建造和高层建筑基础的浇注需要采用温控混凝土。
• Young basic intrusives, which took place late Mesozoic times, formed numerous minor dolerite dykes.
  这些早期的侵入性活动，发生在中生代早期，并形成了一些粗玄岩的沟壑。
• As the first line of defence, communities built sea walls with tsunami gates for river mouths that could be closed when waves approached, as well as offshore breakwaters and raised river dykes.
  作为第一道防线，居民们修建了海堤，并在河口处设立水闸（当海啸靠近时，可以关闭水闸）；另外还修建了离岸堤，并加高了河堤。
• There are many dykes everywhere which keep the sea away from the land.
  到处有堤防止海水侵入陆地。
• These earth dykes cannot hold against floods.
  这些土筑堤埝根本起不到防洪作用。
• Construct dykes along the main river course of the Tarim to channel water through the inland delta down to the lower reaches.
  沿着塔里木河干流建堤坝，把水通过中游的内陆三角洲送到下游。