irrigate

英 [ˈɪrɪɡeɪt]

美 [ˈɪrɪɡeɪt]

v.  灌溉; 冲洗(伤口或身体部位)

过去分词：irrigated　现在分词：irrigating　过去式：irrigated　第三人称单数：irrigates　

高考考研TOEFLGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.26536 / COCA.16313

牛津词典

verb

• 灌溉
  to supply water to an area of land through pipes or channels so that crops will grow
  1. irrigated land/crops
     经过灌溉的土地 / 农作物
• 冲洗（伤口或身体部位）
  to wash out a wound or part of the body with a flow of water or liquid

柯林斯词典

• VERB 灌溉
  Toirrigateland means to supply it with water in order to help crops grow.
  1. None of the water from Lake Powell is used to irrigate the area.
     鲍威尔湖的水一滴都没有用于灌溉该地区。
  2. ...strips of cultivated land irrigated by a maze of interconnected canals.
     由纵横交错的运河灌溉的一条条狭长耕地区域

英英释义

verb

• supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
  1. irrigate the wound
• supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
  1. Water the fields
  Synonym:water

双语例句

• Meat and dairy production use30% of the earth's land surface, 70% of agricultural land and account for8% of the water humans use, mostly to irrigate feed crops.
  肉类和奶制品的生产占用了地球30%的陆地面积，70%的农业用地，使用了8%的人类用水，这些水主要用于饲料作物的灌溉。
• That dam is in order to irrigate and generates electricity and to provide the source of a river.
  那水坝为灌溉以及发电而提供水源。
• The money can be used to drill deeper wells and pay farmer to not grow and irrigate.
  这些钱可以用来钻更深的井，并补偿农民因无法种植和灌溉所造成的损失。
• Let's carry the spring water of heart to irrigate the flower of forgiveness and love, and to water the tree of respect and honesty.
  让我们提着来自心灵的泉水，永远去灌溉宽恕和友爱之花，灌溉尊敬和忠诚之树。
• Mosque water is reused to irrigate Yemen's dry fields.
  将清真寺的水重新用于灌溉也门干涸的田地。
• Nobody offered a drop of water to irrigate my land.
  没人愿意供水给我浇地。
• Drought, and I would use artificial rainfall method to irrigate grassland, so that the grass always maintain the verdant color.
  天旱了，我会用人工降雨的方法来浇灌草原，使草地永远保持嫩绿的颜色。
• Growers can have an intricate watering system to irrigate their crops but they can't have running water inside the houses of workers.
  农场主们利用复杂的地灌系统给庄稼浇水，而她们的工人家里却连自来水都没有。
• They set to work and drilled enough pump wells to irrigate more land.
  他们开始大干起来，打了足够的水泵井来灌溉更多的土地。
• Spray or irrigate with a syringe, as part of the body.
  用注射器注入或灌溉作为身体的一部分。