fjord 的定义
- a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.
- a bay.
fjord 近义词
narrow inlet
更多fjord例句
- So-called tidewater glaciers like Taku often bulldoze a mound of sediment ahead of them as they grind down a fjord.
- Scientists recently announced that they now expect Taku to start receding up its fjord, perhaps very quickly.
- Having a rare purebred dog doesn’t just say “I am a special snowflake with a cool dog,” it also says “I am rich as hell, and can afford to import a puffin-hunting dog from the remote fjords of Norway.”
- These dimensions are typical of some of the massive glaciers in Greenland flowing into deep fjords, Bassis says.
- For instance, the account of a huge wave in Alaska that scoured mature trees from steep slopes along fjords up to a height of 524 meters — about 100 meters taller than the Empire State Building — may leave readers stunned.
- The tour then goes to Norway for dives of a fjord, followed by stops in Portugal, Ukraine, Spain, and a season finale in Brazil.
- The little white house of Skipper Randulf stood on an elevation, looking over the bay and the fjord.
- The fjord below lay as smooth as a mirror, the outermost headlands and islands seeming to stand out of the water.
- And it was at this season that the fjord near-by which the kings most oft abode gat its name of Harding.
- Send also word to Erling to go out of the fjord so that we may meet in More.
- The wind was sweeping down over the meadow, and driving the thick smoke from the pitch-house out over the fjord.