irrigate

英 [ˈɪrɪɡeɪt]

美 [ˈɪrɪɡeɪt]

v.  灌溉; 冲洗(伤口或身体部位)

过去分词：irrigated　现在分词：irrigating　过去式：irrigated　第三人称单数：irrigates　

高考考研TOEFLGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.26536 / COCA.16313

牛津词典

verb

• 灌溉
  to supply water to an area of land through pipes or channels so that crops will grow
  1. irrigated land/crops
     经过灌溉的土地 / 农作物
• 冲洗（伤口或身体部位）
  to wash out a wound or part of the body with a flow of water or liquid

柯林斯词典

• VERB 灌溉
  Toirrigateland means to supply it with water in order to help crops grow.
  1. None of the water from Lake Powell is used to irrigate the area.
     鲍威尔湖的水一滴都没有用于灌溉该地区。
  2. ...strips of cultivated land irrigated by a maze of interconnected canals.
     由纵横交错的运河灌溉的一条条狭长耕地区域

英英释义

verb

• supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
  1. irrigate the wound
• supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
  1. Water the fields
  Synonym:water

双语例句

• Scrape the pit and fissure with explorer and irrigate the tooth with water then dry it.
  用探针（修牙的）刮孔洞及裂缝，用水清洗，然后干燥。
• You can't irrigate an orange grove with it.
  不能用它浇灌桔子林。
• Growers can have an intricate watering system to irrigate their crops but they can't have running water inside the houses of workers.
  农场主们利用复杂的地灌系统给庄稼浇水，而她们的工人家里却连自来水都没有。
• Irrigate desert areas to make them fertile.
  灌溉荒芜地区使之肥沃。
• Drought, and I would use artificial rainfall method to irrigate grassland, so that the grass always maintain the verdant color.
  天旱了，我会用人工降雨的方法来浇灌草原，使草地永远保持嫩绿的颜色。
• Nobody offered a drop of water to irrigate my land.
  没人愿意供水给我浇地。
• They set to work and drilled enough pump wells to irrigate more land.
  他们开始大干起来，打了足够的水泵井来灌溉更多的土地。
• The order includes a ban on using drinking water to irrigate ornamental landscaping on public streets.
  该命令包括一项禁止使用饮用水灌溉公共街道上装饰性园林的禁令。
• Spray or irrigate with a syringe, as part of the body.
  用注射器注入或灌溉作为身体的一部分。
• The use of the new method not only alleviate the load of oilfield sewage disposal, but also make use of sewage to irrigate the ecological land, which finally turn wastes into useful thing.
  通过此项新技术的应用不仅缓解了油田污水处理负荷，而且使污水资源化，进行生态田的灌溉，最终达到了化害为利的目的。