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marshy

/mahr-shee/US // ˈmɑr ʃi //UK // (ˈmɑːʃɪ) //

沼泽地,沼泽的,沼泽,沼泽化

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    marsh·i·er, marsh·i·est.

    • : like a marsh; soft and wet; boggy.
    • : pertaining to a marsh.
    • : consisting of or constituting a marsh, bog, swamp, or the like.

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Examples

  • The Pripyat River basin was marshy until industrialization intruded.

  • Apaches used what was once a marshy ciénaga as a water hole for centuries.

  • A damp mist rose from the river and the marshy ground about, and spread itself over the dreary fields.

  • The juncture was in a big, marshy, untillable flat, from which hills rose abruptly.

  • Eastwards it fell away into a marshy tract filling the angle of the two rivers and intersected by watercourses.

  • The land on the western side of the gulf is high and rocky; but the opposite shore is very low, and apparently marshy.

  • As in the low marshy ground at the mouths of the Liri and Volturno, malaria is very prevalent.