- 1堤防；路堤。擋水多用堤防，墊高公路或鐵路多用路堤。
An embankment is a long, wide pile of earth or stones, built on purpose. People make one to hold water back — along a river, a lake, or the sea — so the water does not flood the land beside it. They also make one to hold up a road or a railway, so the track or the road sits high, dry, and level. It is not a thin brick wall. It is a bank, often with a slope you can walk on. In towns you may see a path along the river embankment. The word is ordinary in news about floods, trains, and building work. It is not the bank where you keep money, though people do stretch “bank” for both, which is how the mix-up starts.
From the word’s history
From embank + -ment.
embank「築堤」＋-ment，指堤防。
組成embank + -ment. Embank is en- (in / onto) + bank (a raised pile of earth).
同家族的字
- embankthe verb: to build this kind of earth wall
- bankhere the raised ground, not the money shop
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
embankmentnoun/ɪmˈbæŋkmənt/
- 1
a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.
- The work to be done under these specifications consists in furnishing all materials and erecting a stone embankment, an earth embankment, and a wharf. The stone embankment will contain about 216,000 tons of stone; the earth embankment about 285,000 cubic yards of broken stone, sand, or other suitable material; and the wharf will contain 501,320 feet of timber, and 802 piles, together with the requisite quantity of cast iron mooring bits, wrought iron spikes, bolts, etc.
- Sink a trench so the pipe of your water-works will be below ground; have the pump and the mules which work it at such a point and so defended by an epaulement or traverse, or some other defensive embankment, as to shield them.
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