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"低洼、常常泥泞的地方",始见于1580年代,是苏格兰方言 swaill "低洼、凹陷的地方"或东安格利亚方言 swale "阴凉的地方"(15世纪中期)的特殊用法; 两者可能都源自古诺尔斯语 svalr "凉爽",来自原始日耳曼语 *swalaz。这是英格兰的一个地方用语,在美国被广泛应用,特别是指草原的低洼地带,最近也用于郊区开发的园林景观特征。
origin unknown
The first known use of swale was in 1584
1 But a heartbeat later, aided by the wind, his ball keeps rolling, slides off the back of the green and down into a swale.
2 Mike Swale: I'm starting to feel like a…
迈克:我开始感觉像一个……
3 Root Trail, a modest passage without the pomp of manicured swales, leads east to the Atlantic through a simple beach cut-through slotted between private properties.
4 Werner sees no tracks, only a humped swale of glitter in the moonlight, and the white forest beyond.
5 An arrest report said Santiesteban pulled his car onto a roadside swale in the Brownsville neighborhood near Miami and forced the child into the backseat, where he assaulted him.
6 No home damage was reported, but the land movement had “undermined a paved terrace swale,” the report said.
7 The land here was laser-leveled, and workers carved a swale to give juvenile salmon a way in and out when the plain floods.
8 He saw Garnett move down, thought for a moment, but no, he was moving down into that one swale, the protected area Pickett had spoken of.
9 A rain garden is a landscaped swale designed to hold and capture storm water until it can percolate into the soil.
10 Soon, early light revealed a vast and inviting sea of sand and swales undulating toward the Grapevine Mountains on the horizon.
11 Glassed swale, which is widely used in urban stormwater management is an ecological facility of rainwater collection, convey and purification.
植被浅沟是一种生态型的雨水收集、输送和净化措施,被广泛地用于城市园区雨水利用和城市径流非点源污染控制系统。
12 Duckworth teaches her crew about the swales, like how they keep toxins out of Thornton Creek.
13 He took no heed of the course he pursued, so long as that course led him through the swale bottom.
他不再理会走什么路,只要这条路能走出这片谷底就行。
14 Beasley was using them to map Burnt Hill, looking for clues of which slopes, swales and ridges will be best for merlot, cabernet sauvignon or syrah.
15 According to a city staff report, the city seeks to do so by filling fissures that have developed, constructing drainage swales that will divert runoff to the ocean and installing “dewatering wells” to extract groundwater.
16 Otherwise it would be just like the subsoil, which is only good for filling up an inconvenient swale or pit, as in “I can bring you a load of fill.”
17 Ko meanwhile sends her third down a swale to the back.
18 If portions of your yard slope toward your house, you may have to cut a shallow ditch — or swale — to divert the water before it reaches the house.
19 One day, two men were out hunting four miles northwest of Fairfax when they spotted a car at the bottom of a rocky swale.
20 Added insulation will protect roots from dipping temperatures while retaining moisture and helping control erosion.–Consider digging swales on hillsides and slopes or near newer native plantings.
1 低洼地
4 烧完