tributary

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tributary 是什么意思

中文释义

a. 支流的, 纳贡的, 从属的, 辅助的

n. 支流, 纳贡者, 属国

英文释义

s. (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream

s. paying tribute

tributary 的真实例句

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Legal Amazon has 25,000 kilometres of navigable waterways, including the Amazon itself and its tributaries.

—— New Amazon branding is stunningly different

In 2018 Haag and his colleagues did an experiment at 17 sites in the Rockcastle and its tributaries.

—— The baffling ecological disaster that's killing America’s freshwater mussels

Environmental flows refer to water released by the government from dams and tributaries into rivers and ecosystems to restore their health.

—— Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds

Within a decade the town had dozens of button factories, and the boom was spreading up and down the Mississippi and its tributaries.

—— The baffling ecological disaster that's killing America’s freshwater mussels

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