breakwater

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英语

breakwaters (1)

词源

源自break +‎ water。对比荷蘭語 breekwater (“防波堤”)。对比firebreak。

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈbɹeɪkˌwɔːtə/

• 音頻 (美國)：

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名词

breakwater (複數 breakwaters)

1. 防波堤

   近義詞: bulwark

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   • 1908，吉爾伯特·基思·卻斯特頓，The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare，布里斯托爾：J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith， […]；倫敦：Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company，→OCLC，第 259 頁：

     But there's a pier or breakwater runs out into the sea just here, which we could defend longer than anything else, like Horatius and his bridge.

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   • 1956September，F. F. Nicholls，“Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”，Railway Magazine，第 632 頁：

     Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still standing up to the worst that the Irish Sea can do.

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   • 1992，Vernor Vinge，A Fire Upon the Deep，New York：Tor Books，→ISBN，→LCCN，→OCLC，第 70 頁：

     They sailed around a breakwater that hadn't existed on Peregrine's last trip and tied in at the moorage.

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2. (航海) 舱壁

延伸阅读

• breakwater (structure)在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en

异序词

• water break, waterbreak