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单词 dune
释义
dune
noun[C]
uk
/dʒuːn/us
/duːn/
ahillofsandnear abeachor in adesert
（海滩或沙漠的）沙丘
See also
sand dune
picture of dune
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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  • embankment
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(Definition ofdunefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • It was a low shore on which the fine sand, some fifteen feet deep, lay drifted into hillocks or dunes.
  • The dunes extend for miles: an empty wilderness of sand with the grey North Sea beyond.
  • The loose sand, in which these shells are packed, is heaped into low, straight, long lines of dunes, like those left by the sea at the head of many bays.
  • This time the tide was in, so he crossed the dunes and struck the shore on the further side of the quicksand.
  • We were thrown out upon the dunes.

dune| American Dictionary

dune
noun[C]
us
/dun/
(alsosand dune)
ahillof sand beside abeachor in adesert
(Definition ofdunefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdune

dune
Sand grains' ping-pong-like movement becomes obvious andduneformation simplicity itself.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A large area of the district consists of sand dunes and barren land.
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It is postulated that these two modes correspond to the formation of ripples and dunes respectively.
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Parking is provided on the ground floor, part submerged by dunes and marram grasses.
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The performance took place along a cliff top which dropped to a lagoon protected from the ocean by a thick sanddune.
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The peninsula contains different types of tropical vegetation such as tropical deciduous forest, thorn scrub, mangroves, grassland, marshlands and dunes.
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The perturbations are migrating downstream indicating the formation of dunes.
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However, the same winds could help to disperse microbes within gypsum sand grains which accumulate indunestructures.
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Deposits occur red above fair-weather wave base in a shoreface environment, built up by amalgamated event beds and dunes.
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Data from 19 tree species were collected from 20 transects in coastalduneforest.
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The predominant habitats are marshes, mediterranean scrublands and sand dunes.
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The starting point of each transect was typically the crest/valley of the second longitudinaldunefrom the shoreline (50 m from the forest edge).
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Using physically plausible estimates for these parameters the results of the analysis are in good agreement with observations for both ripples and dunes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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