rapids

英 [ˈræpɪdz]

美 [ˈræpɪdz]

n.  (河的)急流; 湍急的河水

GRE

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牛津词典

noun

• （河的）急流；湍急的河水
  part of a river where the water flows very fast, usually over rocks
  1. to shoot the rapids (= to travel quickly over them in a boat)
     穿过急流

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 急流；险滩
  Rapidsare a section of a river where the water moves very fast, often over rocks.
  1. His canoe was there, on the river below the rapids.
     他的独木舟在险滩下面的河水中。

双语例句

• Going through the rapids while in the water increases the excitement!
  在水里穿过急流更增添了刺激的程度！
• Dongpo visited not the so-called Red Cliff upstream rapids, but the Yangtze River inlet whirl Jiwo Lake;
  ②东坡游的不是所谓急流的赤壁摩崖上游，而是长江的洄水湾矶窝湖；
• His canoe was there, on the river below the rapids.
  他的独木舟在险滩下面的河水中。
• It becomes rapids as it passes through deep valleys, traveling across western Yunnan Province.
  它穿过深谷时就变成了急流，流经云南西部。
• They shot the rapids in a canoe.
  他们坐独木舟驶过急流。
• And experience the rush of tubing down the great river's rapids.
  并且可体会从河流急速冲下的刺激。
• The canoe flipped over in the rapids.
  独木舟在急流中翻了过来。
• Some parts of the year, the flow was fast and furious, akin to rapids.
  那年的一些部份，流程很快速的和狂怒的，血族到迅速的。
• They move to Cedar Rapids and she punches out a couple of kids.
  般到柏湍镇，生了两个小孩。
• Webb died while attempting to swim the Whirlpool Rapids under Niagara Falls in 1883.
  在1883年，当Webb尝试穿越尼亚加拉大瀑布下方的Whirlpool急流时，他不幸身亡了。