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ravine

/ruh-veen/US // rəˈvin //UK // (rəˈviːn) //

沟壑,峡谷,沟谷,沟渠

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a narrow steep-sided valley commonly eroded by running water.

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Examples

  • There was a huge park a few blocks from your house, built around a series of wooded ravines and gullies that flattened themselves into picnic grounds in the lower elevations, the grass full of fireflies at dusk.

  • To get here, you’ll have to ditch your car and hike 150 feet along a ravine and over a bridge.

  • As you see in the video, she comes jolting toward me and then kind of dips down into a ravine to my left.

  • He watched oil spill into the ravine there, month after month, before CalGEM issued the fine against Chevron.

  • By July, a sticky, shimmering stream of crude and brine oozed through the steep ravine.

  • Whose fault was it anyways that truck three got stuck in the ravine?

  • We got our trucks stuck in flooded ravine beds, almost losing one to swiftly rising waters.

  • The remains of her body were found in a ravine almost a year later.

  • The bones told a different story: she was executed along with five or six men in a ravine near Vlasenica.

  • Hasan says he's heard the ravine was used as a garbage dump by the locals for years; few remains have survived.

  • The cantonment was split into two sections by an irregular ravine, or nullah, running east and west.

  • Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.

  • Just at that moment the trail dipped into a rocky ravine and climbed a steep bank on the opposite side.

  • There was no water in the ravine, but the rocks were jagged and sharp, and they had to use much care to save their tires.

  • In two places the ravine became so narrow, that the bed of the stream occupied its whole extent.