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单词 turlough
释义

turloughn.

Brit. /ˈtʊəlɒx/, /ˈtəːləʊ/, U.S. /ˈtərˌlɑx/, Irish English /ˈtuːrlɑx/
Etymology: < Irish, Gaelic turloch a brook, ground covered with water in winter and dry in summer, < tur whole, absolute, entire + loch lake, pool. N.E.D. (1915) gives the pronunciation as (tu·rlouχ) /ˈtuːrləʊx/.
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1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 958 As to those places we call Turloughs, quasi Terreni lacus, or land-lakes; they answer the name very well, being lakes one part of the year of considerable depth; and very smooth fields the rest.
1861 Zoologist 19 7617 Serving..as water-courses for the ‘buried’ rivers which give rise to the sink-holes and turloughs for which the district of the Burren is famous.
1878 G. H. Kinahan Man. Geol. Irel. xix. 325 When the water during floods rises in the [shallow hollows], it overflows the adjoining lands, forming the turloughs, which are usually lakes in winter and callows in summer.
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