canyon的意思|canyon的解释-里氏词典

canyon ['kænjәn]

n. 峡谷, 海底悬崖

A canyon usually has a river flowing through it.
峡谷常常有河流经过其中。
Arizona is famous for the Grand Canyon.
亚利桑那州因科罗拉多大峡谷而著名。
Herbert become rich by opening a tourist trap near the grand canyon.
赫伯特靠在大峡谷附近开的一家对旅游者大敲竹杠的商店而变得富有起来。

canyon

[ noun ]
a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
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Canyon \Can"yon\, n.
The English form of the Spanish word {Ca[~n]on}.
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Jardine, Mont., a mining community of 100 to 150 people four miles from Gardiner, was evacuated Saturday because its only escape route was through a canyon to Gardiner, said Betty Schmitt of Gallatin National Forest in Montana.
Seven cars left the track in a canyon near Granby, northwest of Denver.
Ms. Oltrogge said the plane was found outside approved flight corridors for the canyon.
A 17-car Amtrak train with more than 300 people aboard derailed Sunday night during a snowstorm in a rugged, mountainous canyon, but no injuries were reported, authorities said.
Some farms and hamlets rest precariously on canyon ledges, giving the appearance of defying gravity or tempting fate.
Her body was found that November in a canyon between Salt Lake City and Provo.
Both climbers had to be lowered off the rock face by members of the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, who had to work their way up the back side of the canyon wall to reach them.
A state agency has offered Bob Hope $20 million for 5,700 acres of his mountain property to spare the rugged canyon country from development, an official said.
Dozens of residents were evacuated from the path of the flames, which were sent racing by canyon wind gusting to 40 mph.
The dam eventually broke, sending a 150-foot-high wall of mud speeding down a canyon.
Freestone operates the switchboard from his Motel Deluxe in Salmon, about 20 miles from the canyon.
Lake Merzbacher was up there somewhere in the ice. Then the road dived into a long, twisting canyon which ended at an almost deserted tin-mining town.
Its lanes curl between overhanging half-timbered facades, quirky, obtuse and secretive. One is never far from the canyon walls of the cathedral, dwarfing all human activity.
Sendak was appointed artistic director to head the project under an $800,000 grant from the Eccles Foundation, Redford said Sunday at his canyon resort.
The attack occurred in a canyon at a point where the river is 50 to 60 yards wide, he said.
Mitsubishi Estate has a dramatic proposal to turn the Marunouchi business district around the Tokyo railroad station, where today only one building stands higher than 10 stories, into a concrete canyon of some 60 skyscrapers, 40 to 50 stories high.
The defendants were charged in the slayings of officers Roy Lee Stanley and Andy Begay, whose charred bodies were found Dec. 5 inside a burned-out police truck in a remote southern Utah canyon.
The nation's last known hand-crank party line was disconnected today when residents of central Idaho's rugged Salmon River canyon received private-line, touch-tone service.
In Utah, officials evacuated three mountain homes Friday night and dug trenches around them as a runaway 550-acre brush fire raged in a scenic canyon east of Salt Lake City.
With a very powerful telescope, they might also see the Valley of the Mariner, a five-mile-deep, twenty-mile-wide canyon that would stretch from New York to Los Angeles if it were on Earth.
A 17-year-old student athlete became a hero for the third time in his life when he went to the aid of a man whose van had plunged into a canyon, giving the man his jacket and shirt to ward off hypothermia.
Several of the parades were larger in scope than the traditional route from Bowling Green to City Hall, a canyon about 16 blocks long formed by the office towers along Broadway in the financial district.
The new design would draw water directly from the tailrace of the J.C. Boyle Dam, carry it 10 miles downstream through canals and conduits built into the canyon wall, to a powerhouse where it would spin generators and be returned to the river.
Traffic moved through the canyon on a parallel track, said Tony Marzano, chief transportation officer with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, on which the train was traveling.
If the scrubbers are ordered, it would mark the first time the EPA took action solely to protect a view; there is no immediate health danger from the smog at the canyon.
A buried cable is the heart of the new system, most of it along a narrow, dead-end roadbed, the only way _ other than the river _ in and out of the 40-mile canyon.
In 1986, a Grand Canyon Airlines plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter inside the canyon, killing 25 people.
The developers hope the romance of their steam locomotives and the scenery along the tracks will persuade tourists to park their cars and pay the fare rather than drive to the canyon.
In Nebraska's northwest corner, a timber fire swept through canyon country 12 miles southeast of Fort Robinson State Park this morning, burning at least 3,000 acres.
The animals were herded past brilliant green alfalfa fields, through a canyon and onto the open range.

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