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n. 环礁湖, 近海岸的浅水区, 泻湖, 咸水湖



    lagoon
    [ noun ]
    a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral
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    lagoon \la*goon"\ (l[.a]*g[=oo]n"), n. [It. or Sp. laguna, L.
    lacuna ditch, pool, pond, lacus lake. See {Lake}, and cf.
    {Lacuna}.] [Written also {lagune}.]
    1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one
    into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.

    2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion
    of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See
    {Atoll}.

    {Lagoon island}, a coral island consisting of a narrow reef
    encircling a lagoon.

    1. The plan is for an elaborate system of barriers to close off the three large entrances to the lagoon, consisting of rows of giant hollow metal boxes fixed to hinges on the sea floor.
    2. Nikumaroro, also known as Gardener, has a rim of land a quarter-mile-wide around its V-shaped lagoon.
    3. A businessman remembered simply as The Chinaman, the lagoon's last success story, dried and exported shrimp.
    4. This year the park decided to drop its "Raz Ma Taz" song show, and replace it with the Rocket Car: A stunt man rides a little car down a chute, flips in the air and comes down on a landing pad, or (occasionally) in the nearby lagoon.
    5. "The tumors have been spotted on about half the green sea turtles found along the Indian River lagoon system," said Jacobson, referring to the 100-mile-long stretch of waterways protected by barrier islands along Florida's Central Atlantic Coast.
    6. That means vast quantities of human waste flow into the lagoon every day, alongside other residues from the thousands of service industries such as hotels and restaurants which make up Venice.
    7. Tons of fish along a 20-mile stretch of river died when a pipe at a sewage treatment lagoon ruptured, sending an estimated 400,000 gallons of toxic wastes cascading into the South Branch Kishwaukee River.
    8. An air force plane providing air cover crashed into the lagoon after the siege was broken, military officials said, blaming engine problems, they said.
    9. An Indian helicopter sunk a boat in the Batticaloa lagoon during the operation and about nine people died, he said.
    10. Some grays would travel to a lagoon about 260 miles farther south called Magdalena Bay.
    11. When EPA officials returned to test the lagoon in mid-1988, they found the oil sludge intact but the PCBs gone, Barnette said.
    12. During flood tides, Fabris said, engineers will raise the dikes, effectively sealing the lagoon.
    13. The complex would include the world's largest aquarium, a Caribbean lagoon, a Grecian village and an Asian floating market.
    14. The holes are sealed with wax and the logs are stacked for about a year, occasionally rotated, and sometimes soaked in a small lagoon to encourage the emergence of mushrooms, said Konsis.
    15. Another person drowned in a lagoon in Baguio, Red Cross relief supervisor Ireneo Zabala said.
    16. "But the big sheet in the lagoon is still there," he says.
    17. As the canoe slipped into the Rivers of America lagoon Tuesday evening, about six riders swam to shore while others treaded in the 8-feet-deep water for a second canoe and a raft, said Brian Burnap, a park visitor from Sacramento.
    18. There are ambitious plans to bring the estate 'alive' by building an inner lagoon and marina and a large number of town houses and apartments.
    19. The reports indicated the soldiers had outwitted the Tamil Tigers by paddling across the lagoon during the aerial bombardment, instead of trying to break across a heavily mined causeway that leads to the rear of the star-shaped Dutch colonial fort.
    20. He sees it as an opportunity to attract two industries "ideally suited" to the lagoon city _ film and fashion.
    21. Now their 20th-century descendents are fleeing in the other direction, heading back north to the Italian mainland and abandoning their lagoon city in the northern Adriatic Sea to hordes of tourists and real estate speculators.
    22. The search for a mysterious "monster from the black lagoon" that may be gobbling helpless baby ducklings in a downtown nature pond ended Friday with the sighting of two well-fed catfish swishing lazily through the shallows.
    23. Three previous decrees had established refuges for the whales in the waters of the four major lagoon areas used by the whales, but ecologists say it was not enough to consider the marine zone as a separate entity from the land.
    24. Some cities, including Chioggia, on the Venetian lagoon, and Cavarzere, have had their tap water turned off since Feb. 22.
    25. She worries that the condition of the lagoon will continue to degrade, citing studies showing a 30 percent loss of sea grass beds and an 80 percent loss of filtering mangrove swamps in the area.
    26. For the past three days the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, entrenched in bunkers on a small island in the Jaffna lagoon, have prevented government forces from reaching Mandativu Island, officials said.
    27. At the mouth of the lagoon was Miami, a village of two dozen thatched huts built on the sand.
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