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Definition of river in English: rivernoun ˈrɪvəˈrɪvər 1A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river. 河，江，川；水道 as modifier river pollution Example sentencesExamples - With hundreds of lakes and rivers, you could sail and water ski the day away without even coming close to the coast.
- Major environmental problems faced by China are pollution in rivers, lakes and seas, as well as urban air pollution and acid rain, the report said.
- The small streams became raging rivers, which flowed flawlessly into many lakes.
- The nature was beautiful, mountains, rivers, lakes and blooming Sakura trees.
- The network of canals, rivers and lakes in Holland is thousands of miles long, and since all the Dutch waterways are connected, it makes for the perfect boating holiday.
- Inland wetlands are common on floodplains along rivers and streams and in other low-lying areas.
- The hot springs and underground river that enter the lake results in the water on the shore being boiling hot.
- The rye plants capture and hold nutrients and moisture in place, reducing the amount that reaches rivers, streams and ground water.
- The site is close to a tributary of the Slaney river from which water supplies for Carlow and Wexford are drawn.
- The draining of water from rivers and watersheds for irrigation leads to drier natural habitats.
- The river itself hummed with natural energy, crystal clear water darkening to a thick indigo to show its depth.
- Extraction of gravel in streams and rivers results in sediment-related pollution and a disturbance of natural hydraulic patterns.
- Record temperatures dried up wells, rivers and streams and resulted in water crises in 11 of India's 31 states.
- Some farmers rely on alternative water sources, such as wells, other streams or rivers.
- Glaciers and snowfields are essential stores of water - which keep rivers running and fields irrigated through the long, dry summer.
- In river valleys, water that seeps from canals and fields provides groundwater that can be pumped for various purposes or the water may return to rivers through streams or creeks.
- Above me, the sky was grey and overcast, the rain pelting down upon the rocky mountainside in steady sheets, running down to feed the rivers and lakes.
- Global warming could devastate lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States.
- Water can be obtained from streams, rivers, lakes, or underground aquifers, which are used to supply private wells and public drinking water.
- Water is obtained from lakes, rivers, and wells and must be carried over great distances.
Synonyms watercourse, waterway, stream, tributary, brook, inlet, rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet, freshet canal, channel Scottish & Northern English informal burn Northern English beck British dialect bourn North American & Australian/New Zealand creek Australian billabong rare rillet - 1.1 A large quantity of a flowing substance.
巨流；大量 great rivers of molten lava 熔岩巨流。 Example sentencesExamples - Her tears, which flowed freely, mingled with her dark mascara and were just starting to make little rivers of black down her face.
- The unlikely trio followed cooled lava flows, or places where the searing rivers of fire had yet to flow, their path taking them on a zigzag course up the blackened and charred slope of the mountain.
- The young man was sweating profusely; rivers of it were flowing down his pale face.
- Tiny rivers of blood trickled aimlessly down his hand.
- The film has an austere and bittersweet beauty, but this could easily be interpreted as excessive, like drowning in rivers of despair.
- To the casual visitor, there seems little tangible evidence of uplift, despite the rivers of money sluicing round the casino tables.
- He did not seem too concerned with the tiny rivers of blood that were snaking down his body, and settled down against the hard rock wall.
- ‘Hey Mom,’ I said softly, with rivers of tears falling down my face.
- I pulled the sticky cotton T-shirt from my chest and began to pulse it in and out, like a heartbeat, trying to fan away the rivers of sweat pouring down my chest.
- I proceeded along the jagged ridges staring down into a river of a boiling red substance.
- Red rivers of molten lava were scorching through Los Angeles neighborhoods.
- She whimpered, rivers of tears falling down her face.
- There are rivers of lava as well, and huge avalanches.
- Beads of sweat poured down King Louis' brow, indistinguishable from the rivers of rainwater that dripped earthward from his face.
- He writes as if he had rivers of knowledge gushing out of his head under their own momentum.
- There I am running rivers of sweat down my neck, down my chest, down my belly and through my shirt, and I'm dancing harder than I've ever danced to a rock band.
- Everywhere he turned, there were screams of anguish and rivers of blood.
- As evening fell and the cityscape was flooded with white rivers of light, illuminated ice particles on the streets and facades were transformed into dancing flecks of diamond white.
- Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters.
- Human instinct kicked in, powered her legs as they ran, and pumped fresh rivers of adrenaline into her veins.
Synonyms stream, torrent, flood, deluge, cascade spate, wave - 1.2 Used in names of animals and plants living in or associated with rivers, e.g. river dolphin.
用于生长在河里或与河流相关的动物和植物的名称中，如river dolphin，river birch河
Phrasessell someone down the river informal Betray someone, especially so as to benefit oneself. 〈非正式〉（尤指为使自己得益而）出卖某人；背叛某人；欺骗某人 he said they were management lackeys who had been sold down the river by Bunker Example sentencesExamples - Will he remove our freedoms and sell us down the river with a smile?
- And they say they feel they have been sold down the river by their union leaders, who last week accepted a pay settlement involving changes in shift patterns and working practices.
- They could stop these plans now but instead they are selling us down the river for a few pence a tonne.
- Traders accused the planning committee of ‘selling them down the river’ after controversial plans to redevelop the Market Hall were approved.
- Soldiers and veterans groups could complain that troops are being made into scapegoats, and that the Pentagon and CIA have sold them down the river.
- I guess just by sheer odds alone, he was bound to do something right, and the Right Honourable Prime Minister saw the light about doing the right thing and not selling us down the river.
- Staff feel they have been sold down the river by the Government.
- Yet he behaves and talks constantly as if the world is out to get him, as if he has been sold down the river by some series of massive injustices that have conspired to deny him the fullness of his life.
- He has sold us down the river and made our democracy a joke.
- Our leaders have sold us down the river on numerous occasions.
Synonyms cheat, trick, swindle, defraud, dupe, hoodwink
informal To or in prison. 〈非正式，主北美〉进监狱，坐牢 we were lucky not to be sent up the river that time boy Example sentencesExamples - You're indicted, convicted and sent up the river.
- The government wants you to know that violating its law can send you up the river.
- They're sent up the river for ‘life,’ having all the time in the world to spend together.
- Let me be on record as being strongly opposed to sending Limbaugh up the river, even though that is the penalty he wished to inflict on others.
- Isn't having a code what generally got all the film noir protagonists sent up the river?
Derivativesadjective All Night Radio serve up an escapist's reminder that spring is fast approaching, and we always need music for open windows, top-down convertibles and misty drives on roads rivered with melted snow. Example sentencesExamples - His bloated face was rivered with veins, like raspberry ripple ice-cream.
adjective But, so far as we could discover, the land was riverless, and eternal frost prevailed. Example sentencesExamples - O'Connor saw for himself the arid, riverless country through which the new railway line from Northam must pass.
OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin riparius, from ripa 'bank of a river'. River comes from the same root at rival. To sell someone down the river is to betray them, especially to benefit yourself. The expression refers to the slave-owning period of American history. It was the custom to sell troublesome slaves to owners of sugar-cane plantations on the lower Mississippi, where conditions were harsher than those in the more northerly slave-owning states. The first recorded use is in 1851 by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose best-known work is the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). The ‘betray’ sense did not emerge until much later, in the 1920s, perhaps because the subject was too sensitive to be used casually. In the USA someone who has been sent up the river is in prison. The phrase originally referred to Sing Sing prison, which is situated up the Hudson River from the city of New York.
Rhymesaquiver, downriver, forgiver, giver, quiver, shiver, sliver, upriver Definition of river in US English: rivernounˈrɪvərˈrivər 1A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream. 河，江，川；水道 Example sentencesExamples - The nature was beautiful, mountains, rivers, lakes and blooming Sakura trees.
- Some farmers rely on alternative water sources, such as wells, other streams or rivers.
- Major environmental problems faced by China are pollution in rivers, lakes and seas, as well as urban air pollution and acid rain, the report said.
- Above me, the sky was grey and overcast, the rain pelting down upon the rocky mountainside in steady sheets, running down to feed the rivers and lakes.
- The rye plants capture and hold nutrients and moisture in place, reducing the amount that reaches rivers, streams and ground water.
- Inland wetlands are common on floodplains along rivers and streams and in other low-lying areas.
- The draining of water from rivers and watersheds for irrigation leads to drier natural habitats.
- Record temperatures dried up wells, rivers and streams and resulted in water crises in 11 of India's 31 states.
- The network of canals, rivers and lakes in Holland is thousands of miles long, and since all the Dutch waterways are connected, it makes for the perfect boating holiday.
- The hot springs and underground river that enter the lake results in the water on the shore being boiling hot.
- Glaciers and snowfields are essential stores of water - which keep rivers running and fields irrigated through the long, dry summer.
- Global warming could devastate lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States.
- Water can be obtained from streams, rivers, lakes, or underground aquifers, which are used to supply private wells and public drinking water.
- Extraction of gravel in streams and rivers results in sediment-related pollution and a disturbance of natural hydraulic patterns.
- In river valleys, water that seeps from canals and fields provides groundwater that can be pumped for various purposes or the water may return to rivers through streams or creeks.
- The river itself hummed with natural energy, crystal clear water darkening to a thick indigo to show its depth.
- The small streams became raging rivers, which flowed flawlessly into many lakes.
- Water is obtained from lakes, rivers, and wells and must be carried over great distances.
- The site is close to a tributary of the Slaney river from which water supplies for Carlow and Wexford are drawn.
- With hundreds of lakes and rivers, you could sail and water ski the day away without even coming close to the coast.
Synonyms watercourse, waterway, stream, tributary, brook, inlet, rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet, freshet - 1.1 A large quantity of a flowing substance.
巨流；大量 great rivers of molten lava 熔岩巨流。 figurative the trickle of disclosures has grown into a river of revelations 〈喻〉点点滴滴地透露的情况已经汇成了一股大曝光的巨流。 Example sentencesExamples - I proceeded along the jagged ridges staring down into a river of a boiling red substance.
- The film has an austere and bittersweet beauty, but this could easily be interpreted as excessive, like drowning in rivers of despair.
- There are rivers of lava as well, and huge avalanches.
- ‘Hey Mom,’ I said softly, with rivers of tears falling down my face.
- Her tears, which flowed freely, mingled with her dark mascara and were just starting to make little rivers of black down her face.
- There I am running rivers of sweat down my neck, down my chest, down my belly and through my shirt, and I'm dancing harder than I've ever danced to a rock band.
- Beads of sweat poured down King Louis' brow, indistinguishable from the rivers of rainwater that dripped earthward from his face.
- Red rivers of molten lava were scorching through Los Angeles neighborhoods.
- The young man was sweating profusely; rivers of it were flowing down his pale face.
- The unlikely trio followed cooled lava flows, or places where the searing rivers of fire had yet to flow, their path taking them on a zigzag course up the blackened and charred slope of the mountain.
- As evening fell and the cityscape was flooded with white rivers of light, illuminated ice particles on the streets and facades were transformed into dancing flecks of diamond white.
- He did not seem too concerned with the tiny rivers of blood that were snaking down his body, and settled down against the hard rock wall.
- To the casual visitor, there seems little tangible evidence of uplift, despite the rivers of money sluicing round the casino tables.
- I pulled the sticky cotton T-shirt from my chest and began to pulse it in and out, like a heartbeat, trying to fan away the rivers of sweat pouring down my chest.
- He writes as if he had rivers of knowledge gushing out of his head under their own momentum.
- Human instinct kicked in, powered her legs as they ran, and pumped fresh rivers of adrenaline into her veins.
- Tiny rivers of blood trickled aimlessly down his hand.
- She whimpered, rivers of tears falling down her face.
- Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters.
- Everywhere he turned, there were screams of anguish and rivers of blood.
Synonyms stream, torrent, flood, deluge, cascade - 1.2as modifier Used in names of animals and plants living in or associated with rivers, e.g., river dolphin, river birch.
用于生长在河里或与河流相关的动物和植物的名称中，如river dolphin，river birch河
Phrasessell someone down the river informal Betray someone, especially so as to benefit oneself. 〈非正式〉（尤指为使自己得益而）出卖某人；背叛某人；欺骗某人 Example sentencesExamples - Will he remove our freedoms and sell us down the river with a smile?
- He has sold us down the river and made our democracy a joke.
- Yet he behaves and talks constantly as if the world is out to get him, as if he has been sold down the river by some series of massive injustices that have conspired to deny him the fullness of his life.
- Our leaders have sold us down the river on numerous occasions.
- Soldiers and veterans groups could complain that troops are being made into scapegoats, and that the Pentagon and CIA have sold them down the river.
- They could stop these plans now but instead they are selling us down the river for a few pence a tonne.
- And they say they feel they have been sold down the river by their union leaders, who last week accepted a pay settlement involving changes in shift patterns and working practices.
- Traders accused the planning committee of ‘selling them down the river’ after controversial plans to redevelop the Market Hall were approved.
- I guess just by sheer odds alone, he was bound to do something right, and the Right Honourable Prime Minister saw the light about doing the right thing and not selling us down the river.
- Staff feel they have been sold down the river by the Government.
Synonyms cheat, trick, swindle, defraud, dupe, hoodwink
informal To or in prison. 〈非正式，主北美〉进监狱，坐牢 Example sentencesExamples - Let me be on record as being strongly opposed to sending Limbaugh up the river, even though that is the penalty he wished to inflict on others.
- The government wants you to know that violating its law can send you up the river.
- Isn't having a code what generally got all the film noir protagonists sent up the river?
- They're sent up the river for ‘life,’ having all the time in the world to spend together.
- You're indicted, convicted and sent up the river.
OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin riparius, from ripa ‘bank of a river’. |