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polder

/pohl-der/US // ˈpoʊl dər //UK // (ˈpəʊldə, ˈpɒl-) //

围垦区,围垦地,围垦,圩场

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tract of low land, especially in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the sea or other body of water and protected by dikes.

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Examples

  • Idly Marc Polder pushed a swinging door aside and entered what passed on Torran for a restaurant.

  • Into this I put slices of beef, and let it stew slowly till quite done, and then thicken the sauce with polder starch.

  • With the exception of the Polder schorres, the district fertilized by the overflowing of the river, few districts are cultivated.

  • But in North Holland and Utrecht on the contrary the polder water has generally to be raised.

  • There was an answering murmur, in which he could distinguish, James Polder's impatient tones.