英:[djuːn]
美:[duːn]
英:[djuːn]
美:[duːn]
复数:dunes
noun
a mound or hill of sand built up by the action of wind.As children, we loved to roll down the sand dunes by the lake.The camels made their way across the dunes of the dessert.
sand dunen. [地]沙丘
"沿海地区由风吹积形成的、松散的沙堆、沙岭或沙丘," 1790,源自法语、中古荷兰语或中古低地德语 dune,这些语言或许源自高卢语 *dunom(这使它成为 down(n.2)“小而圆的山丘”近亲)。
法语 dune(“沙堆”)(13世纪)可能是从荷兰语 duin 或其他日耳曼语言中借来的。意大利语和西班牙语 duna 来源于法语。这个英语单词也可能是 down(n.2)的方言形式。在1965年有了 Dune buggy,,“专为海滩设计的娱乐性摩托车”。
沙丘
沙垄
沙质河床在水流作用下形成的尺度较大(与水深有关)纵剖面接近不对称三角形的床面形态。
French, from Old French, from Middle Dutch; akin to Old English dūn down — more at down
The first known use of dune was in 1605
dungnoun
waste matter of an animal : manure
dunenoun
a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind
dunenoun
a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind
1 The dunes were changed constantly by the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was a child.
2 When she saw Sierra and Robbie coming down the dune, she offered the saddest, most genuine smile Sierra had ever seen on her mom.
3 I could cut the sinews and carry the planks up the cliff two at a time on my back and across the dunes to the Coral Cove, which meant many days.
4 Yet the coast is not a classic, Sahara-style desert of sand dunes and scorching sun.
5 A chill, dark fog has rolled in off the dunes, settling heavily over the city.
6 Phineas, still asleep on his dune, made me think of Lazarus, brought back to life by the touch of God.
7 The thought of what I’d done with them makes me want to toss them to the dunes, Teluman blades or not.
8 They found a path on the landward side of the dunes, then they were crossing a sandy lawn strewn with broken bottles.
9 Also the wind blew strong in this place, blowing against the dunes which cover the middle part of the island so that most of the time sand is moving everywhere.
10 We had a long day to kill before entering the dreaded desert, which you may know has the tallest sand dunes in the known world.
11 “John Harvey was the whole reason I entered this contest in the first place. I haven’t liked him since I saw him playing on the dunes,” she said.
12 She tugged Ess up over the dunes, onto a pile of low flat rocks that baked all day in the sun.
13 It was a litde pastel box with faded curtains, half sunken into the dunes.
14 At Indiana Dunes National Park, beaches are submerged and the eponymous dunes are collapsing.
15 As we ran into the dunes, I saw behind us a gang of silhouetted men splashing the last few feet to shore.
16 This book explains how desert dunes are formed.
这本书介绍了沙丘的形成.
17 Sat beneath the table, safe there, and Deen had pulled the dune grass from around his ponytail and held it out.
18 The dunes here are linear, thought to be due to shifting wind directions.
这里的沙丘是线性的, 认为是由于风的方向转变.
19 Even the dune grass is shiny , giving off more light than green.
甚至沙丘上的草叶也在闪光, 比单纯的绿色更有活力.
20 In his novel "dune", Frank Herbert imagined a planet covered largely by sand dunes.
在小说《沙丘》中,作者FrankHerbert设想了一个主要被沙丘覆盖的星球。