喜樂美語
  1. 1堤防、河堤（美式說法；沿河而建、用來擋洪水）

    A levee is a long wall or bank, usually of earth or concrete, built along a river to stop the water spilling over in a flood. You hear the word most in American English, especially about the Mississippi and other big rivers; British English more often says embankment, or dyke. A levee can break, and when it does the flood is sudden and very bad — news stories talk about a levee breach. There is another, older sense (a formal afternoon gathering), from the same French idea of “rising”, but that is rare now and is not this meaning. The spelling is easy to mix up with levy, a tax or a call-up, which looks almost the same on the page.

組成From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”) — a raised bank.

同家族的字

  • leversame French lever, “to raise”
  • levysame French “raise”; this cousin is a tax or a call-up, not a wall

原始詞典資料10 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。

leveenoun詞源 1/ˈlɛvi/

  • 1

    An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge.

  • 2

    An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

  • 3

    The steep bank of a river.

    • The purchaser of a riparious estate under the words "front to the levee," does not acquire the alluvion or batture, when there is land susceptible of separate ownership beyond the levee.
  • 4

    The border of an irrigated field.

  • 5

    A pier or other landing place on a river.

leveeverb詞源 1/ˈlɛvi/

  • 1

    To keep within a channel by means of levees.

    • to levee a river

leveenoun詞源 2/ˈlɛvi/

  • 1

    obsoleteThe act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.

    • c. 1763, Thomas Gray, letter to Mr. Nichols And look before you were up in the morning, though you were a punctual courtier at the sun's levee
    • The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox […]
  • 2

    A reception of visitors held after getting up.

  • 3

    A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.

    • I must take my leave, for the Cardinal holds a levee to-day, and let those fail in attendance who want nothing.
    • At the King's levee on the morning of the 13th, Philippe was first ignored; then asked by His Majesty (rudely) what he wanted; then told, ‘Get back where you came from.’

leveeverb詞源 2/ˈlɛvi/

  • 1

    To attend the levee or levees of.

    • He levees all the great.

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