【canyon】 - AEAS备考词汇

canyon

UK:  ['kænjən]

US:  [ˈkænjən]

复数：canyons  

n.

1.【地】峡谷

1 . Patridge works up a sweat five hours a week, doing laps in her backyard pool or hiking in Runyon Canyon or just hanging at home.
patridge工程了汗水，五个小时，每星期做圈，在她的后院游泳池或远足在runyon峡谷或只是挂在家里。

2 . Researchers found a carpet of small crustaceans inhabiting the head of the Mississippi Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico.
研究者们在墨西哥海湾的密西西比峡谷里发现了微小甲壳纲动物的寄居地毯。

3 . The two men came to the edge of a deep canyon. Through the falling snow, they saw what looked like a small city across the canyon.
两个人来到峡谷边缘，透过雪雾，他们看到峡谷对面看起来像是小城市的东西。

4 . He and his troops waited out a blinding ion-charged sandstorm at Vondar Canyon before setting out on the offensive.
他和他的部队在冯达山谷等一场眩目的离子沙暴结束后，开始准备进攻。

5 . It looked now as though he were moving into a great canyon of clouds and the wind had dropped.
眼下仿佛他正驶进一个云彩的大峡谷，风已经停了。