silt
英 [sɪlt]
美 [sɪlt]
- n. 淤泥，泥沙；煤粉；残渣
- vi. 淤塞，充塞；为淤泥堵塞
- vt. 使淤塞；充塞
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silt 淤泥，淤沙，淤积，淤塞来自古英语 sealt,盐，词源同 salt.原指海水沉积物，后引申词义淤泥，淤沙，淤积，淤塞等。
- silt
- silt: [15] The likelihood is that silt originally referred to the mud in salt flats by river estuaries, and that it is etymologically related to salt. It was probably borrowed from a Scandinavian word – Danish and Norwegian have the apparently related sylt ‘salt marsh’.
=> salt - silt (n.)
- mid-15c., originally "sediment deposited by seawater," probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian and Danish sylt "salt marsh"), or from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch silte, sulte "salt marsh, brine," from Proto-Germanic *sultjo- (cognates: Old English sealt, Old High German sulza "saltwater," German Sulze "brine"), from PIE *sal- (see salt (n.)).
- silt (v.)
- "to become choked with silt" (of river channels, harbors, etc.), 1799, from silt (n.). Related: Silted; silting.
- 1. Without huge investment the reservoirs will silt up.
- 如果没有巨额投资的话，水库肯定会淤塞。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.
- 每年河水泛滥时都会在田野上沉积一层淤泥.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The water contains fine silt.
- 水里含有细泥沙.
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- 4. The channel is almost choked with silt.
- 水渠里淤了很多泥沙.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. The river deposited silt at its mouth.
- 河口沉积了淤泥.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
