英语单词

rivulet是什么意思

rivulet

英 ['rɪvjʊlɪt] 美 ['rɪvjələt]
  • n. 小溪,小河

中文词源


rivulet 小河,小溪

来自意大利语 rivoletto,小河,小溪,来自 rivolo 小词形式,该词本身 rivo 的小词形式,来自 拉丁语 rivus,河流,溪谷,来自 PIE*reie,流动,流水,奔跑,词源同 run,Rhine.

英文词源


rivulet (n.)
1580s, from Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo, itself a diminutive of rivo "brook," from Latin rivus "stream, brook," from PIE *reiwos, literally "that which flows," from root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine). For ending, see -let.

双语例句


1. The school is located near the rivulet.
学校坐落在小河附近.

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2. They passed the dry bed of a rivulet.
他们跨过了一道干涸的河床.

来自辞典例句

3. I see you hold the edge of your skirt strid a rivulet.
我看见你提起裙裾跨过小河.

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4. Few men , drinking at a rivulet, stop to consider its source.
饮水小河边,无人思其源.

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5. The ploughs crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks.
耕犁在雨水流过的迹印上来回地划了一列列的犁沟.

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