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

• 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。
• Actually, in my analogy, the rapids are the periods of marketplace transformation.
  事实上，按照我的类比，“急流”就是市场转变时期。
• Doulizi beach is the dry rapids in Chuanjiang River.
  川江斗笠子滩为枯水急流滩险。
• They shot some pretty weirs and rapids.
  他们看到了一些美丽的堰坎和湍滩。
• The laid-back Brown's Canyon run had wide open rapids with huge, fun wave trains.
  柔美的布朗峡谷有着开阔的急流，翻滚着巨大的波浪。
• 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。
• Due to its uneven topography, fujian has many cliffs and rapids.
  由于复杂的地貌，福建有许多悬崖险滩。
• She played tennis, rode horseback, and shot rapids in a canoe.
  她打网球，骑马，还驾独木舟穿过激流险滩。
• They move to Cedar Rapids and she punches out a couple of kids.
  般到柏湍镇，生了两个小孩。
• 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；