【aquifer】 - A-level备考词汇

aquifer

UK:  ['ækwɪfə(r)]

US:  ['ækwəfər]

复数：aquifers  

n.

1.含水层

2.(其含水量足可成为泉或井的)蓄水层

3.畜水层

1 . Where once it had recycled mountain rain into a vast aquifer underneath, its hard bottom now ushers occasional floodwater right out to sea.
从前她还能将山间雨水回收到河道下方的广阔的蓄水层，而现在其坚硬的底部会将偶然光临的洪流直接送入大海。

2 . The aquifer rises especially close to the surface in the Sand Hills region in the north of the state, near Mrs Luebbe's ranch.
在该州北部的沙岗地区、吕伯的牧场附近，含水层尤其接近地表。

3 . A new concept of flow transfixion is suggested by analyzing the general features of aquifer.
利用含水层储能的一般特点，提出流贯通；

4 . When confined aquifer under the bottom of the pit, the foundation excavation will reduce the thickness of overlying impermeable layer.
在基坑底部以下存在承压水层的情况下，基坑开挖减少含水层上覆不透水层的厚度。

5 . This formation is in part man-made: farmers drilling for water in 1916 tapped into a hydrothermal aquifer that flooded the area.
这个形成过程有部分是出于人为原因：1916年时，当地农民挖掘水源时挖到了地下热水蓄水层，使地下水涌出地面泛滥；