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blackwater

/blak-waw-ter, -wot-er/US // ˈblækˌwɔ tər, -ˈwɒt ər //

黑水,黑水公司,黑水镇

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : any of several human or animal diseases characterized by the production of dark urine as a result of the rapid breakdown of red blood cells.
    • : blackwater fever.

Examples

  • But what—beside perhaps killing ISIS members—could The Artist Formerly Known As Blackwater do for the world today?

  • So I asked him what he sees in terms of the humanitarian potential for something like Blackwater in the world today.

  • The subsequent investigation of this shooting was what prompted a Blackwater manager to threaten a State Department official.

  • “American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators,” the paper notes.

  • Blackwater operated during the Iraq war with a sense that they were untouchable because—well, because they were.

  • With a heavy heart he set out for the Blackwater, and began building a fort there.

  • He had his experiments to watch, his potatoes and tobacco, his yellow wallflowers, in the pleasant garden by the Blackwater.

  • He was bound to one of the logs down in the great stone pot of Blackwater Eddy.

  • Considerably increased in volume by this addition, it hastens to Maldon and its confluence with the Blackwater.

  • The shooting country is hardly broken between Benfleet and the Blackwater.