levee是什么意思音标:英 ['levɪ]美 [ˈlɛvɪ]

n. 早朝, 大堤
vt. 为...筑堤

n. a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
n. a pier that provides a landing place on a river
n. an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

levee的用法和例句：

1.No, those levees are gonna break, and when they do we can't be here.

不 堤坝会崩塌的 我们得在那之前离开

2.We were not singing and dancing down the levee.

我们并不会沿着堤坝唱歌跳舞

3.Some thought he was just swept away when the levee broke.

有人以为他在堤坝被毁时被洪水冲走了

4.Residents near levees or in lowlying areas are urged to evacuate.

在堤坝附近或低海拔地区的居民 已被敦促撤离

5.Now, this goes out to all you lovely people in here and all my beautiful brothers and sisters outside on the levee.

现在 你们这些可爱的人和 我所有在河堤上的美丽的兄弟姐妹都知道

6.employ citizens and free men, repair the aqueducts, levee the river... that sort of thing.

雇佣公民跟自由人 维修排水管道河坝之类的工作

7.The popticians were spending too much energy pretending the flooding wasn't happening to implement the levees before it was too late.

政客花了太多精力 假装不会发生洪水 没有及时筑堤