embankment
音标：
英音/ ɪmˈbæŋkmənt / 美音/ ɪmˈbæŋkmənt /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Later that morning – about 11:30 – farmer John Wilson saw the crashed car at the bottom of the embankment and called the police on the non-emergency 101 number.
那天早上晚些时候 – 大约11:30 – 农民约翰·威尔逊（John Wilson）在路堤的底部看到了撞车的汽车，并以非紧急101号码打电话给警察。
—BBC
Two men suspected of breaking into vehicles in Pennsylvania and being chased by state police were found dead Wednesday in a submerged SUV after driving off an embankment.
两名涉嫌在宾夕法尼亚州闯入车辆并被州警察追赶的男子在周三在淹没的SUV中被发现死亡。
—Washington Times
The inquest heard Hugo lost control after taking the bend too fast, entered on to a grass verge, went down a steep embankment and then into a water-filled drainage ditch.
调查听到雨果在弯曲太快后失去了控制，进入了草边缘，沿着陡峭的路堤沿着陡峭的路堤，然后进入一个充满水的排水沟。
—BBC
基本释意：
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路堤；堤防
同义词：
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短释义：
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长释义：
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文学例句：
He’d scrambled over the embankment and was running around and barking, usual stuff.
他在路堤上爬上了障碍，跑来跑去，吠叫通常。
—The Secret History by Donna Tartt
He parked his car in a side street and walked to the embankment at the edge of a river, unsure whether he was gazing at the Ohio or the Mississippi.
他将汽车停在小街上，走到河边边缘的路堤，不确定他是凝视着俄亥俄州还是密西西比州。
—American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The riverbed wound its way through high-standing firs and tattered alders, but after a little time the embankment fell away and a sparse forest became their only cover.
河床穿过高空的fir和破烂的奥德斯（Alders），但片刻后，路堤掉下来，稀疏的森林成为了他们唯一的掩护。
—The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
词源：
embankment(n.)”a mound, bank, dike, or earthwork raised for any purpose,” 1766, from embank “to enclose with a bank” (1570s; see em- (1) + bank (n.2)) + -ment.also from 1766
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
路堤（n。）“为任何目的提出的土墩，银行，堤防或土方工程，“ 1766年，从堤岸”到银行“与银行”（1570年代；参见Em-（1） + bank（n.2））
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