英:[ˈbaɪu:]
美:[ˈbaɪu, ˈbaɪo]
英:[ˈbaɪu:]
美:[ˈbaɪu, ˈbaɪo]
小海湾;支流;河口;(美国南部水流缓慢、多水草的)河道支流
bay·ou
baI u
bayous
noun
a creek, secondary watercourse, or minor river that is tributary to another body of water
any of various usually marshy or sluggish bodies of water
"迟缓的水道,湖泊或河流的出口",1766年,美国英语,通过路易斯安那法语,源自乔克托语(穆斯科吉安语)bayuk "小溪流"。
borrowed from Louisiana French, earlier bayouque, perhaps borrowed from early Choctaw *bayok, whence Choctaw bo·k "creek, river"
The first known use of bayou was in 1763
bayounoun
a marshy or slowly flowing body of water (as a stream or inlet)
1 The journey was a scenic one: The greens and browns of the bayou were gradually supplanted by the ocher of the Southwest.
2 Except that Mama Rosin's farm is not in the Louisiana bayou, but in the foothills of the Alps, a 40-minute drive from the shores of Lake Geneva.
3 Even the maps have changed; in the most recent government surveys, Louisiana has shed the names of 31 bayous and other coastal features.
4 Now is the Party branch secretary that warden of Dalian city sanded bayou starts the market.
现在是大连市沙河口区长兴市场的党支部书记.
5 I don’t want to feel the sadness caught in my chest start to rise and fill me up until it feels like I’m stuck beneath the water of the bayou.
6 Shot over 14 months deep in the Louisiana bayous, it was a tough apprenticeship because the heavy camera on a tripod made spontaneous location shooting difficult.
7 What would happen if they found him in the bayou, dead in the water, like in those pictures from Katrina?
8 Son of a gun , we'll have big fun on the bayou.
哥们儿! 咱们在河里玩个痛快!
9 Crawfish, around my parents’ home, were the plentiful free food that appeared in all the bayous and ponds every spring.
10 Their faces blur, and their voices become one ambient hum like the noise of the bayou.
11 The tragedy of war played second fiddle to the experience of my people, most of whom were born near some bayou.
12 Bad moonshine isn’t the only thing that gets dumped into the bayou.
13 Pools of water pocked the bayou grass as festivalgoers scrambled to their cars.
14 There were more trees now, as the land gradually shifted from the agriculture of the delta to the thick bayou forests of southern Mississippi and Louisiana.
15 “Didn’t stop you from speaking to me at the bayou.”
16 Unknown to his second wife, he had begun spending a lot of time each week at our house near the bayou where my grandmother, mother and I lived.
17 “Those days in the bayou—those were some of the best days of my life.”
18 A small stream , bayou, or canal.
他们跃过了小溪.
19 Riders will be transported to the magical land of the bayou, complete with flowing Spanish moss and water lilies.
20 Eventually you reach Cajun country and Lafayette where crawfish, bayous and alligators await.