brackish

英 [ˈbrækɪʃ]

美 [ˈbrækɪʃ]

adj.  咸的; 太咸的

GRE机械

BNC.26170 / COCA.21865

牛津词典

adj.

• 咸的；太咸的
  salty in an unpleasant way
  1. brackish lakes/lagoons/marshes
     咸水湖 / 舄湖 / 沼泽

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (水）稍咸的，味道不好的
  Brackishwater is slightly salty and unpleasant.
  1. ...shallow pools of brackish water.
     浅的咸水池

英英释义

adj

• slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
  1. a brackish lagoon
  2. the briny deep
  Synonym:briny
• distasteful and unpleasant
  1. a thin brackish gruel

双语例句

• One time-tested but expensive way to produce drinking water is desalination: removing dissolved salts from sea and brackish water.
  通过了时间检验但造价昂贵的淡水制造方法是去盐作用：去掉溶解过后的盐水和海水当中的盐分。
• Any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water.
  北美洲各种可食用蹼足龟，栖息在淡水或半盐水中。
• Principal application of reverse osmosis has been in desalting brackish waters for domestic consumption.
  反渗透主要应用于生活用含盐水的脱盐。
• High pure water, brackish water desalination and wastewater treatment process in the best equipment.
  是高纯水制备、苦咸水脱盐和废水处理工艺中的最佳设备。
• Occurs in brackish waters of tidal creeks and river mouths, usually among mangroves.
  出现于潮汐小溪与河口的半咸淡水域，通常在红树林之中。
• But the water was brackish.
  可是那水是咸的。
• This is an electrical method which is most promising when the water is brackish.
  这是一种电学方法，它最适用于有咸味的水。
• Among those options is the development of new water resources such as brackish water.
  在那些选择之中是新水源的发展譬如微咸的水。
• Brackish waters generally support only a small range of faunas.
  咸水水域通常只能存活为数不多的几种动物。
• The effects of the irrigation with fresh and brackish water on soil and the growth of cotton were studied under wheat straw mulching.
  该试验在麦秸覆盖条件下，研究了不同矿化度的微咸水灌溉对土壤和棉花生长的影响。