embankments
n. (道路的)路堤,(河流的)岸堤( embankment的名词复数 )
An embankment is a thick wall of earth that is built to carry a road or railway over an area of low ground, or to prevent water from a river or the sea from flooding the area.
They climbed a steep embankment.
他们爬上了陡峭的堤岸。
...a railway embankment.
铁路路堤
The work consisted of throwing up embankments and installing water turbine pumps.
这项工作包括快速建起堤坝和安装涡轮水泵.
By strengthening the embankments they secured the village from floods.
他们加固河堤让村子免受洪水之灾.
These tiny debris - flow deposits formed on freshly excavated embankments of the California Aqueduct.
这些细小的泥石流沉积是在新开凿的加利福尼亚渠的大堤上形成的.
Engineering structures falling in this category are gravity dams with foundations, slopes and embankments, etc.
属于这种范畴的工程结构为带有基础的重力坝, 斜坡和路堤等.
Protective trees along banks and embankments shall not be felled without authorization.
护堤护岸林木,不得任意砍伐.