oxbow

英 ['ɒksbəʊ] 美 ['ɑks,bo]
  • n. 牛轭U字形部分;U字形弯曲
  • adj. 呈U字形弯曲的

中文词源


oxbow 牛轭湖,河流曲湾

ox,牛,bow,弓,轭。比喻用法。

英文词源


oxbow (n.)
also ox-bow, mid-14c., "wooden collar for an ox," from ox + bow (n.1). Meaning "semicircular bend in a river" is from 1797, American English (New England); meaning "curved lake left after an oxbow meander has been cut off by a change in the river course" is from 1898. The reference is to similarity of shape.

双语例句


1. City is located in the deep basin Heilonggang Hutuo OXBOW for the alluvial plain.
深州市地处黑龙港流域滹沱河故道,为冲积平原.

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2. A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow.
截弯取直水道河流穿越U形河曲的颈项处而截出新的水道.

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3. Oxbow lakes, the floodplain, dry streams and tributaries, waves beating against the shore.
牛轭湖, 河漫滩, 干流和支流, 浪涛击打的河岸.

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