valley

英 ['vælɪ] 美['væli]
  • n. 山谷;流域;溪谷
  • n. (Valley)人名;(英)瓦利;(法)瓦莱

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中文词源


valley 山谷

来自拉丁语vallis,山谷,词源同vale.

英英释意


1. a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

英文词源


valley
valley: [13] Valley comes via Anglo-Norman valey from *vallāta, a Vulgar Latin derivative of Latin vallis ‘valley’, whose origins are uncertain. A more direct English descendant of vallis is vale [13].
=> vale
valley (n.)
c. 1300, from Anglo-French valey, Old French valee "a valley" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *vallata, from Latin vallis "valley," of unknown origin. Valley Girl (in reference to San Fernando Valley of California) was popularized 1982 in song by Frank Zappa and his daughter. Valley of Death (Psalm xxiii:4) was rendered in Middle English as Helldale (mid-13c.).

考试真题


What does it take to make a Silicon Valley?It's the right people.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Stanford and Berkeley yielded Silicon Valley.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Could you reproduce silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

In contrast, California, home of Silicon Valley, recently proposed far more restrictive rules that would require human drivers be ready to take the wheel, and ban commercial use of self-driving technology.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

It has migrated from Detroit to silicon Valley, where self-driving vehicles are coming to life.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation of silicon Valley grew, in part, out of the creations of the Homebrew Computer Chub, which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in the mid-1970s.

2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But, Kapur notes, none of us like to fail, no matter how often Silicon Valley entrepreneurs praise the beneficial effects of an idea that fails or a start-up company that crashes and burns.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

Three-quarters of the world's flamingos fly over from other salt lakes in the Rift Valley and nest on salt-crystal islands that appear when the water is at a specific level一too high and the birds can't build their nests, too low and predators can move bri

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

I work with volunteers for wildlife, a rescue and education organization at bailey arboretum in locust valley.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Olduvai Gorge, an early hominid site in Tanzania, was found by a butterfly hunter who literally fell into its deep valley in 1911.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the Kings for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the kings for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922.

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In another case, American archaeologists Rene million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

实用场景例句


a small town set in a valley
坐落在溪谷中的小镇

牛津词典

a wooded valley
树木茂盛的山谷

牛津词典

the valley floor
谷底

牛津词典

the Shenandoah Valley
谢南多厄谷

牛津词典

...a wooded valley set against the backdrop of Monte Rosa.
罗莎峰背后树木繁茂的山谷

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the Loire valley.
卢瓦尔山谷

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The plan has a sting intail: it means we lose one day's holiday.
这个计划是先甜后苦: 它意味着我们少一天的假期.

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The brook trickled through the valley.
小溪涓涓流过峡谷.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

I watched the climbers come down into the valley.
我注视着爬山者下到山谷里去了.

《简明英汉词典》

The farmer's family live ( s ) beyond the next valley.
过了下一个山谷就是那一个农民的家.

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A few carefully chosen men went ahead while main body remained concealed in the valley.
精心挑选出来的几个人走在前面,大队人马则隐藏在山谷里.

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We skirted along one side of the valley.
我们沿着山谷的一侧前进.

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We pitched camp in a river valley.
我们在河谷安营.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The sector dam broke and its water drowned the entire valley.
扇形水坝倒塌了,水淹没了整个山谷.

《简明英汉词典》

Our voices echoed in the empty valley.
我们的声音在空谷中回响.

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His eyes rested on the peaceful valley below.
他的目光落在下面宁静的山谷中.

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Every spring the river floods the valley.
每年春天,河水都会淹没这个溪谷.

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A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.
山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前.

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The soil has been washed down into the valley.
泥土流入了山谷.

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Heavy mists hung in the valley and obscured the mountains.
蒙蒙雾霭笼罩着山谷,遮掩了群山.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The village sprawled across the valley.
村庄在山谷延伸开来.

《简明英汉词典》

The valley was hidden from view in the mist.
在雾中山谷已经看不见了.

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They found a live bomb in the valley.
他们在山谷里发现一枚未爆炸的炸弹.

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From the top of the hill there's a beautiful prospect over the valley.
从山顶俯视,山谷间的美景一览无余.

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The valley is carpeted with cherry blossoms.
山谷一片樱花.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The geologist found many uncovered fossils in the valley.
在那山谷里,地质学家发现了许多裸露的化石.

《简明英汉词典》

The regiments debouched from the valley.
这个团从山谷中走了出来.

《简明英汉词典》

The guerrillas were holding out in the Paghman valley.
游击队员正在帕格曼山谷地区坚持抵抗。

柯林斯例句

Way down in the valley to the west is the town of Freiburg.
从这里往西远远的山谷中是弗赖堡镇。

柯林斯例句