| 单词 |
quebrada |
| 释义 |
‖ quebrada|keˈbrada|
[Sp., fem. of quebrado, pa. pple. of quebrar to break.]
1. A mountain stream in S. America.
1833Blackw. Mag. Aug. 144/2 Next morning I rode out on my mule, to take my last dip in the Quebrada of the Loseria, which was a rapid in a beautiful little rivulet, distant from Panama about three miles. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 979 The many quebradas which flow down the mountain ravines. 1973K. Benton Craig & Jaguar v. 45 The Chasco [river] was fed by the quebradas that brought down meltwater from the high ranges.
2. A ravine in S. America.
1845Encycl. Metrop. XIV. 565/1 Abrupt precipices..occur in every part of the parent chain of the Andes near the equator, and diversify its appearance with the most horrid chasms, or rents, here called Quebradas, varying from 100 feet to 4 or 5,000 feet in depth. 1860Mayne Reid Odd People 456 The stupendous ravines termed ‘barrancas’ & ‘quebradas’, which intersect the Cordilleras of the Andes in other parts of South America. 1927Blackw. Mag. Aug. 229/2 We will build another house in the quebrada at Palalle Grande. 1949Américas Sept. 17 The men wore rags and undoubtedly lived in one-room shanties in the quebradas. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 1135/1 To the west are the Salto-Jujeña, cut by canyons called quebradas through which run small rivers. |
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