brackish

英 [ˈbrækɪʃ]

美 [ˈbrækɪʃ]

adj.  咸的; 太咸的

GRE机械

BNC.26170 / COCA.21865

牛津词典

adj.

• 咸的；太咸的
  salty in an unpleasant way
  1. brackish lakes/lagoons/marshes
     咸水湖 / 舄湖 / 沼泽

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (水）稍咸的，味道不好的
  Brackishwater is slightly salty and unpleasant.
  1. ...shallow pools of brackish water.
     浅的咸水池

英英释义

adj

• slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
  1. a brackish lagoon
  2. the briny deep
  Synonym:briny
• distasteful and unpleasant
  1. a thin brackish gruel

双语例句

• Gars are confined chiefly to fresh water, though some species enter brackish or salt water.
  主要栖于淡水，但有的种可降入半咸水甚至咸水。
• The images show what appears to be brackish water seeping from beneath the Martian surface.
  图片显示有咸水样的东西从火星地表下面渗出来。
• Use in seawater, brackish water, condensers, heat exchangers and pipe work.
  海水、微咸水、冷凝器、热交换器和管道工程；
• This brackish water isn't much good for drinking.
  这略咸的水不太适合饮用。
• This kind of operation works best in brackish water.
  这种生产方法最宜于微咸水。
• A small fleshy herb common along North American seashores and in brackish marshes having pink or white flowers.
  生长于北美海岸和微咸沼泽的小型肉质草本植物，花为粉红色或白色。
• The bacterium can also live in the environment in brackish rivers and coastal waters.
  这种杆菌还可在咸水河流和海岸水域的环境中生存。
• Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.
  内陆的池塘和沼泽或含盐的礁湖地域生活的长腿、三趾、黑白色的涉水鸟。
• Effects of brackish water irrigation on soil and crop under different groundwater depths
  地下水作用下微咸水灌溉对土壤及作物的影响
• One time-tested but expensive way to produce drinking water is desalination: removing dissolved salts from sea and brackish water.
  通过了时间检验但造价昂贵的淡水制造方法是去盐作用：去掉溶解过后的盐水和海水当中的盐分。