dams

dams

美 [dæm] 　英 [dæm]

• n.水坝；拦河坝；母兽；骒马；母亲；母兽；水闸；(牙科用的)橡皮障
• v.抑制；筑水闸堵住；遮断；（在河上）筑坝
• 网络大坝；Doors Automated Manufacturing System；水库

词形变化

复数：dams  现在分词：damming  过去式：dammed  

同义词

英汉双解

英汉解释

n.	1. 母亲 2. 母兽 3. 水闸,坝,堰 4. (牙科用的)橡皮障 5. 〈比喻〉障碍 6. 坝中的水 7. 【矿】坑道堰
v.	1. 抑制 2. 筑水闸堵住 3. 阻塞,遮断

英英解释

n.	1. a wall built across a river to stop the water from flowing, especially in order to create a lake or to help to produce electric power 2. the mother of an animal such as a horse or sheep
v.	1. to stop a river or stream from flowing by building a dam across it 2. to control your feelings so that you do not show them

例句

I have been a vocal critic of big dams that are built mindlessly, but I believe it would be a mistake to halt all dam construction.

我对那些草率决定的水坝计划，向来都会直言批评；但我也相信，终止所有的水坝兴建是一项错误。

"Chinese hydro dams will be affected as well . . . several projects are being requested for review for exactly the same reasons, " he said.

他说：“中国的水电项目也会受影响……有些项目被要求接受审核的理由完全相同。”

Most of the existing irrigation and water supply dams, which are referred to as rural dams, are earth dams with a height of less than 15 m.

大多数用于灌溉和供水的坝为高度小于15m的土坝，并称之为乡村坝。

Blocking floods by means of dams and dikes was not enough, that was the lesson he drew from his father's failure.

筑堤坝堵水是不够的，这是他从父亲的失败中吸取的教训。

Thousands of dams built since the mid-19th century have "completely altered the planet's terrestrial plumbing, " he said.

他说：自19世纪中叶以来修建的几千座水坝已经“彻底改变了地球的地表径流。”

Thankfully, dams constructed in the last decade on the Kazakh side seem to be leading to a partial recovery.

值得庆幸的是，在过去十年里在哈萨克斯坦那边所建的大坝似乎将有部分回复原貌。

Still, Ms. Wang said, the statement was a potentially valuable weapon in the fight against future big dams.

但汪永晨说，国务院声明可能会成为将来反对修建大坝的一个宝贵武器。

China already counts more dams within its borders than any other country. It has paid a huge price for this development.

中国在其边境之内已经建设了数量比任何国家都多的大坝，并为这种开发付出巨大的代价。

From an orbit 217 kilometres above the earth, it is possible to see highways, airports, bridges, dams and even large vehicles.

在距地球217公里的轨道处，人们可以看到高速公路、机场、桥梁、水坝甚至于大型的交通工具。

China's reliance on hydropower maybe be coming back to haunt it. The reason: in an age of global warming, dams are running dry.

中国依赖水电的步伐可能会受阻。原因是在全球变暖的年代里，水坝可能会逐渐干涸。

The work could improve understanding of the safety of dams, waste storage sites, or anywhere else fluid might be seeping through the ground.

这项成果可能提高对堤坝、废品储藏室或其他任何流体可以通过地面渗出的地方安全的理解。

Granular material is the main material of embankment dams and is one of the major study objectives of soil mechanics.

粗粒土是土石坝的主要筑坝材料，也是土力学的主要研究对象之一。

Proper, scientific study of the impacts of dams and of the cost and benefits of controlling water can help to resolve these conflicts.

对于水坝的影响作用、水坝控制水流的成本和收益进行恰当而科学的研究能够有助于解决这些冲突。

The WCD was an independent, international, multi- stakeholder process which addressed the controversial issues associated with large dams.

世界水坝委员会是个独立的，国际间的，多投资人的组织，关注与大水坝有关的争议性问题。

If dams cannot be removed, then they should be equipped with eel ladders to help juvenile eels travel upstream.

如果大坝非建不可，就应该装备一条留给鳗鱼幼仔洄游河流上游的途径。

There would be a compromise: 3 smaller dams would produce energy as well and spare most of the agricultural lands and people's homes.

也许会有这样一种妥协：用三个小水坝满足农地和居民日常生活的能量所需。

You are usually sent as part of a team to help build schools, community centres, houses, bridges, dams or latrines.

你们往往可以作为队伍的一部分去参加学校、交流中心、房屋、桥梁、大坝或厕所的建设。

A conservationists eyes sparkle as he recalls building dams on Strawberry Creel in the California of his youth.

一位环保员回忆他年轻时在加利福尼亚草莓溪筑水坝的经历时，双眼熠熠闪光。

The Salween is so far the longest free-flowing river in Southeast Asia despite having many efforts to construct dams in its basin.

萨尔温江是迄今为止在东南亚最长的自由流动的河流，尽管各国努力在它的盆地建设大坝。

Many governments are at least thinking in terms of dams and co-operation.

许多国家的政府至少还是考虑修建大坝、实施合作的。

Some of these dams would be more than 1, 500 miles from the central grid to which the electricity will be sent.

其中几座大坝与供电中心电网之间的距离约有2400多公里。

then , to help the salmon swim upstream to deposit their eggs , they build special fish ladders up the smaller dams and rapids.

同时，为帮助鲑鱼逆水，游回产卵的地方，他们在较小的水坝和急流上建设鱼梯。

China is building most of Africa's new dams out of its own pocket, with all sorts of hoped-for spin-offs.

为了期望中的种种收益，中国自掏腰包在非洲援建了大部分的大坝项目。

Hossain and his colleagues have detected up to 4 percent higher precipitation per year where dams have been built.

侯赛因和同事们发现，大坝建成后，每年可增加4%的降水量。

Some, like the two Elwha dams, were built without fish ladders, meaning they serve as completely impenetrable barriers to fish migrations.

一些大坝和这两座埃尔瓦河大坝一样在建造的时候缺乏鱼梯设计，就是说它们完全阻碍了鱼群的洄游。

We have developed instruments to help us in agriculture , irrigation , generating electricity , building dams , curing many fatal diseases.

我们研制出了各种工具来帮助我们从事农业、灌溉、发电、建筑水坝、治疗许多致命疾病。

China already boasts both the world's biggest dam (Three Gorges) and a greater total number of dams than the rest of the world combined.

中国不仅号称拥有世界上最大的水坝（三峡大坝），而且其水坝总数超过了全球其它国家的总和。

Sensitivities over the Mekong's flows have led to talks between China and Thailand on how the dams may affect the water levels.

多方密切关注湄公河流域事件的发展，由此引发了中泰就大坝是否影响下游水位展开了多轮会谈。

Water harvesting is more than just a matter of constructing ponds, dams, wells or tanks, of course.

当然，水源的储集并不仅仅是修建水窖、大坝、开井或建造水箱那么简单。

The roller compacted concrete dam construction technique is one of preferred dams style in water conservation and hydroelectric project.

碾压混凝土大坝施工技术是水利水电工程大坝首选坝型之一。

Although hydroelectric power seems like a good solution, the quantity, locations, and scale of such dams may not be ideal.

尽管水电似乎是一个不错的解决方案，但是大坝的容量、位置和尺寸却可能不是十分理想。

The general tend of the conclusions is applicable for the design of high arch dams located in high seismic area.

分析结果具有普遍意义，对强震区的高拱坝建设可以提供重要参考。

Dams built along the river and neighbouring waterways have also kept them from swimming into and out of their habitats.

此外，在江边以及附近水域建筑的堤坝也使它们无法在自己的栖息地自由出入。

Like the beavers, the Dutch are great builders of dams. 27% of the Dutch territory lies below the sea level.

和海狸一样，荷兰人也是筑坝高手。荷兰有27%的领域低于海平面。

None was available to the general public anymore. Those sites included two devoted to pipelines, one to nuclear reactors and one to dams.

这四个网站中包括两个石油管道，一个核反应堆网站以及一个大坝网站。

The first chunks of concrete have been removed from the dams, which will slowly be eaten away over the next few years.

第一块混凝土已经从大坝上拆下来，整个大坝将在接下来的几年里慢慢拆除。

Many governments that once needed the bank's help for dams, roads and other big projects are earning plenty from the sale of raw materials.

那些曾向世界银行贷款修大坝、公路以及其他大工程的政府现在已经在数卖原材料赚的钞票。

Water in reservoirs behind dams, plus the water used to irrigate nearby land puts more moisture in the air, which falls as precipitation.

大坝后面水库中的储水，加上用来灌溉土地的水，会增加附近地区的潮湿度，使降水量提高。

If it could only bust the monopolistic dams that have parched its economy, its desert might one day start to bloom.

假如墨西哥只要能打破已使其经济干涸的垄断大坝，也许有那么一天，它的沙漠就会开始绽放。

Multi-arch dam is one of light buttress dams and its capping plate shows arch.

连拱坝是挡水盖板呈拱形的一种轻型支墩坝。