tributary
tributary 英 ['trɪbjʊt(ə)rɪ] 美 ['trɪbjə'tɛri]
adj. 纳贡的；附属的；辅助的 n. 支流；进贡国；附属国
名词复数:tributaries
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- adj. 纳贡的；附属的；辅助的
- n. 支流；进贡国；附属国
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1. Indians charged that alongside the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon, people fell ill from unknown diseases.
印第安人指控说，沿纳波河，亚马逊河的一个支流，人们患上不明原因的疾病。
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2. The southern tributary actually drains a larger portion of Greenland’s central ice sheet, so a retreat there could lead to a more substantial ice discharge.
实际上南部支流外流了更多格陵兰岛中心冰原的水源，所以那边的冰川消退会导致更大规模的冰流量。
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3. Jacques argues that something like the tributary system that existed in the past can be re-created, but that system applied mainly to China’s nearer and smaller neighbours.
雅克认为类似于过去附属国的体制可能会重现 ，但是这种体制主要体现在中国临近的和较小的邻国。
- tributary (adj.) late 14c., "paying tribute," from Latin tributarius "liable to tax or tribute," from tributum (see tribute).
- tributary (n.) late 14c., "person, country, etc. owing obedience or paying tribute or a tax to a sovereign or another people," from Latin tributarius (see tributary (adj.)). Meaning "stream that flows into a larger body" is from 1822, from the adjective in this sense, which is recorded from 1610s.
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