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

• Digging into the sand, they sought for fresh-water springs to irrigate the saplings.
  他们在沙里挖下去，想找到清水来浇树苗。
• He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
  他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。
• But it also suggests that China is not shy about printing money to irrigate its economy.
  但它同时表明，中国并不羞言印钱注入经济的做法。
• 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。
• The capability of irrigate water is on talent!
  灌水这东西，很讲天分的！
• 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。
• I would prepare the meals after school, and accompanied my mom to irrigate our crops late at nights.
  我放学后会准备一餐，而且陪伴了我的妈妈灌溉我们的农作物迟的在晚上。
• 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。
• 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。
• They dug channels to bring in water from the Grand Canal to irrigate the rice fields.
  他们挖掘沟渠从大运河引水灌溉稻田。