irrigate

英 ['ɪrɪɡeɪt] 美 ['ɪrɪɡeɪt]

• vi. 进行灌溉
• vt. 灌溉；[医]冲洗

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 灌溉（土地）
2. 【医】冲洗（伤口）
3. 饮酒过度
4. 刺激
5. 使清新，滋润
6. 使潮湿

英英释义

Verb:

1. supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams;

   "Water the fields"
   

2. supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting;

   "irrigate the wound"
   

例句

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. They are irrigating with water.
   他们正用水灌溉土地。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. We have irrigated the desert area to make it fertile.
   我们已经灌溉了荒芜地区使它肥沃。
2. They have built canals to irrigate the desert.
   他们建造成水渠以灌溉沙漠。
3. They irrigate their crops with water from this river.
   他们引这条河里的水灌溉庄稼。

经典引文

• The country was..artificially irrigated by a network of canals.

  出自： J. Yeats

• If you want anything growing besides native things, you have to irrigate.

  出自：New Yorker

• The green Nile irrigates a barren region.

  出自： G. S. Fraser

近反义词

【近义词】

• water 水
• flood 淹没
• moisten 弄湿
• wet 湿的
• hose down 用软管浇、淋或洗...
• hose 水管
• bathe 沐浴