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You'll usually meet this word inside the phrase 'catchment area.' In geography, a catchment area is the whole area of land where rain collects and drains into one particular river, lake, or reservoir. In British English, the phrase is also used for schools and hospitals: the catchment area is the neighborhood around them, the zone from which they accept students or patients.
(地理)集水區; (英式,教育/醫療)學區、服務區(catchment area)
組成catch + -ment (a noun ending meaning 'the result or area of an action'). A catchment is the area that 'catches' something - rain water, or in the school sense, students.
同家族的字
- catchthe base verb - a catchment area 'catches' rain water, or in the school sense, catches students living nearby
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
catchmentnoun/ˈkatʃmənt/
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Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.
- Do you think that there ought to be some board or some authority for each catchment basin, which must be appointed with adequate powers to prevent the pollution of streams?
- [paragraph 515] Now let us come to this point: you are quite clear that serious evil exists in this union of navigation and drainage? […] [paragraph 517] And you are also clear that one obstacle is the taxation of the catchment area, and that it needs some plan to be devised for meeting it, although this plan may have defects?
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A catchment area, or the people it serves.
- The Hospital Plan first set out the objective: a network of large district general hospitals, each providing specialised medical and surgical facilities for a catchment of 200,000 to 300,000 population[…].
- The publication of regular newsletters providing updates of floodplain management activities and distributed to individual residents in the catchment is an effective means of keeping the community informed.
catchmentverb/ˈkatʃmənt/
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To divide into catchment areas.
- the catchmenting of mental health services
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。