levee

英 ['levi] 美 ['levi]

• n. 集体接见；招待会；堤岸；码头
• v. 筑堤

英英释义

Noun:

1. a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)

2. a pier that provides a landing place on a river

3. an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The Major General attended the President's levee in full uniform.
   那位少将身着全套军服出席总统的招待会。
2. Crews are rushing to build a four-foot-tall levee around the eastern Missouri community.
   工作人员急着在密苏里东部地区建造一座四英寸高的堤坝。

经典引文

• Islands in the river might be leveed and successfully cultivated.

  出自： J. Palmer

词汇搭配

• closing levee 围堤
• coastal levee 海岸堤防,海堤,海塘...
• training levee 导水堤,导流堤...
• levee ramp 堤上坡道
• main levee 主堤
• open levee 开口堤
• levee grade 堤顶纵坡
• natural levee 冲积堤,天然堤...
• levee revetment 堤防护岸
• river levee 沿河大堤,河堤,河流...
• separation levee 隔堤,分流堤...
• wing levee 翼堤
• levee sloughing 堤身崩坍
• levee widening 堤坝加宽,堤坝培厚...
• ring levee 月堤,环闸
• back levee 背水堤
• levee sluice 堤上泄水闸

近反义词

【近义词】

• embankment 堤防
• bank 银行
• earthwork 土方工程
• wall 墙壁
• rampart 垒
• protection 保护
• reception 接待