英语词源
- rapids (n.)
- 1765, from French rapides (see rapid); applied by French voyagers to rough, swift-flowing reaches in North American rivers.
权威例句
- 1. His canoe was there, on the river below the rapids.
- 他的独木舟在险滩下面的河水中。
- 2. The canoe shot the rapids.
- 独木舟飞速地冲入急流.
- 3. The boat shot the rapids.
- 小船迅速通过急流.
- 4. The river brawled over the rapids.
- 河水哗哗地流过湍滩.
- 5. With him at the helm, we are a hundred percent safe crossing these treacherous rapids.
- 由他掌舵, 通过这段激流险滩是万无一失的.