lagoon
lagoon 英 [ləˈgu:n] 美 [ləˈɡun]
n. [地理][水文] 泻湖；环礁湖；咸水湖
名词复数:lagoons
- If you are snorkeling off the coast of Florida in water cut off from the main ocean, you are likely in a lagoon — a body of water separated from the main ocean.
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- n. [地理][水文] 泻湖；环礁湖；咸水湖
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1. We lowered two red skiffs from our research vessel, loaded our diving gear, and sped off toward the lagoon.
我们从科考船上降下两艘红色小艇，装上我们的潜水装备，朝环礁湖飞驰而去。
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2. Rocket-shaped cars, which emitted colorful puffs of steam, shuttled passengers across a lagoon in the fair's center.
设计成火箭外形的车厢，喷射出五彩的气流带领着游客穿过世博会中央的咸水湖。
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3. The bleaching had killed all the coral on the lagoon floor, but almost half appeared to be growing back—the fastest recovery any of us had ever seen.
白化现象原本杀死了环礁湖海床上的所有珊瑚，但现在几乎一半的珊瑚又再度生长了起来——这样的恢复速度着实罕见。
- lagoon (n.) 1670s, lagune, earlier laguna (1610s), "area of marsh or shallow, brackish water beside a sea but separated from it by dunes," from French lagune or directly from Italian laguna "pond, lake," from Latin lacuna "pond, hole," from lacus "pond" (see lake (n.1)). Originally in reference to the region of Venice. The word was applied 1769 (by Capt. Cook) to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll. Also see -oon. Related: Lagoonal.
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