dune
dune 英 [dju:n] 美 [dun]
n. （由风吹积而成的）沙丘
名词复数:dunes
- A dune is a natural hill made of sand, either on a beach or in a desert. It's a good idea to bring plenty of water and a camel if you're trekking across sand dunes in the Sahara.
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- n. （由风吹积而成的）沙丘
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1. They have written about it in fiction, from Rider Haggard’s “She” to Frank Herbert’s “dune”.
从瑞德•哈葛德的《她》到弗兰克•赫伯特的《沙丘》，人们在科幻小说中也多有描述。
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2. Between the shore and the inland edge of the dune field, sand alternates with vegetated ground.
在海岸与内陆沙丘地带的边缘之间，沙地与覆盖植被的地表交相辉映。
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3. A wide shot might best portray one desert, while a close-up of one plant struggling to survive on the side of a dune might best represent another.
描绘沙漠的全景时运用广角镜头是最合适的，而对沙丘一侧顽强生存的植物的特写则表现出另一种物质。
- dune (n.) 1790, from French, Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dune, all perhaps from Gaulish *dunom (thus related to down (n.2)). The French dune "sand hill" (13c.) is held by Diez to be an Old French borrowing from Dutch duin or some other Germanic source. Italian and Spanish duna are from French. Dune buggy attested by 1965.
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