| 单词 | embankment |
| 释义 | embankment (once / 1870 pages) n WORD FAMILY embankment: embankments+/embank: embanked, embanking, embankment USAGE EXAMPLESThe vehicle plunged down an embankment and overturned in rural Doniphan County. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) The vehicle ran into a ditch, struck an embankment and overturned. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) Three males aged 14 and 15 were arrested after the car careened down an embankment and hit a fence. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) n a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection Exp|Hypo|Hyper Antonine Wall a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain Great Wall of Chinaa fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width levee an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing bulwark, rampart, wallan embankment built around a space for defensive purposes baileythe outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle battlement, crenelation, crenellationa rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns earthworkan earthen rampart fraisesloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes merlona solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement hill, mound structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones |
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