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lagoon

/luh-goon/US // ləˈgun //UK // (ləˈɡuːn) //

潟湖,礁湖,泻湖,沼泽地

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.Compare laguna.
    • : Also la·gune . any small, pondlike body of water, especially one connected with a larger body of water.
    • : an artificial pool for storage and treatment of polluted or excessively hot sewage, industrial waste, etc.

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Examples

  • It is also soon to be the Thermal of the Thermal Beach Club, which will feature an artificial 20-acre surf lagoon with custom waves, created by PerfectSwell wave technology.

  • Viviane Menezes, a marine scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, has described the Red Sea as being like a “big lagoon” with “everything connected.”

  • Before the pandemic, around 700 massive ships entered the lagoon each year.

  • Turneffe Flats sits on Turneffe Atoll, a 300-square-mile series of hundreds of palm-fringed islands, endless mangroves, clear lagoons, and unbroken reefs — the very picture of pristine Caribbean beauty.

  • The smallest fossil could fit on a pinky nail, and has no bones or teeth—it’s just soft tissue imprinted in the bottom of a muddy lagoon.

  • No one knows exactly why 29-year-old Iranian costume design student Mahtab Savoji turned up dead in the Venice lagoon last week.

  • I wind up driving into a lagoon of some kind and presumably drowning.

  • A one-legged torso wearing only a stiletto-heeled boot was found floating in a Venice lagoon.

  • She was the Brooke Shields we fell in love with in Blue Lagoon—but of age.

  • He called out something about his fish, and soon after passed out of sight into the lagoon.

  • "It's across the lagoon," Dr. Silence cried, but this time in full tones that paid no tribute to caution.

  • And an answering cry sounded across the lagoon—thin, wailing, piteous.

  • She looked long away from me across the lagoon and at last sighed, like one who has drunk deeply, and turned to me.

  • Making our way in the direction pointed out, we saw before us a creek falling into the lagoon.