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单词 aqueduct
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Examples from literature
  • About 4,000 years ago people started building special pipes called aqueducts to bring water to their homes.
  • Thanks to aqueducts, there was plenty of water.

Examplesofaqueduct

aqueduct
Water-control features included aqueducts, drains, walled channels, dams, and a bridge.
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He attributed this not only to pollution of the source of abstraction but also to contamination during transportation in uncoveredaqueductchannels.
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A plane through the fourth ventricle and theaqueductlimited the cerebellum.
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Drains and aqueducts shunted water above and below ground, often under plaza spaces.
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Then indicate anaqueductby a series of arches made of wood and also washed over with cement.
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So the other sages said, we are sorry, the law is not determined by the way the water flows in anaqueduct.
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This difficult relationship helped to consolidate two traditional tools for mass control and the prevention of disorder, namely public works (schools, roads, aqueducts, shipways etc.) and government subsidies.
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That in its turn created the need for the police to guard the exposed parts of theaqueduct.
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Water can of course be carried across watersheds in aqueducts or similar devices.
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And you say anaqueductis going along within some three or four hundred feet of that well?
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If theaqueductshould in any place cause the well to dry up, would yon be prepared to find some other supply for the farm?
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They cannot take too much; theaqueductcapacity will not be there.
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This includes storage reservoirs and water treatment plant as well as aqueducts and water mains.
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There is no shortage of water there, and no immediate need for large-scale, high-powered research and major developments with reservoirs and aqueducts.
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But it does not comprise only a clam; it also includes ancillary works, like theaqueduct, the intake tower and the treatment works.
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