canal, branch, brook, creek, river, stream, torrent
这组词共同的意思是“流水的通道”。它们的区别是：
1.除canal指人工开挖的河流或渠道外，其余各词均指自然形成的水道。
2.river和torrent均指流量较大的河流，river可泛指(自然形成的)江河；torrent则特指急流、湍流。这两个词还常用于比喻。
3.stream可指大河，也可指小河或小溪，指小溪时与brook,creek同义。creek侧重其狭长蜿蜒，缓缓流动，且多流入大河或湖泊。brook侧重发源于山泉。creek和stream都比brook大。stream还可引申表示事物连绵不断。
4.branch指江河的支流。
South America is joined to North America by a canal.
南美洲和北美洲由一条运河连在一起.
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There the irrigation canal links up with the reservoir.
这条灌溉渠在那里与水库连接起来.
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the sluggish black waters of the canal
运河里缓慢流动的黑乎乎的河水
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The result was that the engine ended up at the bottom of the canal.
结果引擎最终沉到了运河底。
柯林斯例句
Hearing can be affected by ear wax blocking the ear canal.
耳垢堵塞耳道可能会影响听力。
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The lake communicates with the sea by means of a canal.
这个湖通过运河和大海相连.
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The canal has burst its banks.
大渠决了口子.
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The Grand Canal began to build in the Sui Dynasty.
大运河是在隋朝开始修建的.
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This irrigation canal has fallen into disuse.
这条渠荒废了.
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The canal has been closed to shipping.
这条运河已对所有的船舶关闭.
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The rough rock walls were like the sides of a deep canal.
凸凹不平的石墙就像一条很深的运河的河岸。
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They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
他们违反国际公约封锁了苏伊士运河.
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The canal has proved useful to the county in many ways.
这条水渠给这个县带来的好处是多方面的.
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They were on their way to the Shropshire Union Canal when their van was involved in a collision with a car.
在去往什罗普郡联盟运河的路上，他们的小货车与一辆小车相撞。
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The best place to catch fish on a canal is close to a lock.
运河上捕鱼的最佳地点是靠近水闸的地方。
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The two towns are linked by a canal.
两个城镇有运河相连.
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The canal is open to shipping.
运河可以通航了。
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The Grand Canal flows southwards through the four provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
大运河纵贯河北 、 山东 、 江苏、浙江四省.
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The dish now had to be lifted vertically because one edge was resting against the side of the canal.
现在必须垂直着提升馅饼盘,因为盘的一边靠在运河的侧面上.
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The set of opinion was toward building a new irrigation canal.
大家的意见倾向于修建一条新灌溉渠.
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The Panama Canal joins two oceans.
巴拿马运河连通两大洋.
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He is recorded to have made this canal.
有书记载他曾挖过运河.
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The canal is blocked.
该运河阻塞不通.
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The Grand Canal joins the Haihe at Tianjin.
大运河在天津与海河汇合.
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For one agonizing moment, the dish was perched precariously on the bank of the canal, but It'suddenly overbalanced and slid back into the water.
在令人坐卧不安的一瞬间, 馅饼盘悬悬乎乎地停在运河岸边, 然而它突然失去了平衡,滑回水中.
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His decapitated body was found floating in a canal.
人们发现他被斩首的尸体漂浮在一条水渠里。
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The ship is sailing towards Europe through the Suez Canal.
这条船正通过苏伊士运河驶往欧洲.
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The Grand Canal joins the Hai River at Tianjin.
大运河在天津和海河汇合.
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