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arroyo

/uh-roi-oh/US // əˈrɔɪ oʊ //UK // (əˈrɔɪəʊ) //

阿罗约,阿洛约

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ar·roy·os.

    • : a small steep-sided watercourse or gulch with a nearly flat floor: usually dry except after heavy rains.

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Examples

  • So I run most days—sometimes a few miles, sometimes much more—through the sandy arroyos of my backyard in northern New Mexico.

  • Arroyo had no night operator, so we agreed that the stolen engine might easily have slipped past there without being marked down.

  • Gorcher came back pretty soon with his clearance, which gave him the right to run to Arroyo as first section of Number Eighteen.

  • He did it to the queen's taste; and in exactly eight minutes out of Banta we tore over the switches at Arroyo.

  • Arroyo has no night operator, and when we sneaked through the Banta yard and past the station, the operator there was asleep.

  • At midnight the wearied pursuers dropped down from a high plateau to a narrow arroyo.