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词汇 polder
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Definition of polder in English:

polder

noun ˈpəʊldəˈpoʊldər
  • A piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dykes, especially in the Netherlands.

    圩田(尤指荷兰从海或河中用大堤围垦而造的低田)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A polder is a piece of land that has been reclaimed from the sea or a lake through drainage.
    • By far the largest population close to East Anglia is in the Netherlands where there has been a steady increase despite a drastic reduction in reedbed areas in the reclaimed polders.
    • Yet the Dutch polders have a strong aesthetic beauty.
    • The population of Helix aspersa (Gastropoda: Helicidae) belongs to an intensive agricultural zone located in Brittany (northwestern France), in the polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.
    • Perhaps it is more than a coincidence that Canada's populist party grew up on the prairies: flat land, divided into rectangular plots, in many ways similar to the Dutch polders.
    • It was named after the land gained from the sea which in Dutch is called a polder.
    • Political abuse in Maine invited the Dutch king to confine his activities to dykes and polders and abstain from pronouncing upon mountain ridges.
    • Before the Dutch diligently applied their drainage technology to the polders of the Médoc in the mid 17th century, the region was salt-marsh, of interest for grazing rather than vine-growing.
    • Based in the remote polder lands of Holland, Heerenveen, under the astute eye of their coach, Foppe de Haan, are seen in Dutch football as a sort of finishing school.
    • Over 100 boxes were erected on a new polder and a large proportion were occupied by kestrels in the first season.
    • There are 3500 polders (areas of reclaimed land) in the Netherlands, so the Dutch clearly enjoyed playing God.
    • The deciduous and evergreen trees around the small circular polder could serve as an uncontrived wall.
    • That was what happened in the terrible floods of February 1, 1953, when high tides and storms drove water inland over the polders of Zeeland Province and nearly 2000 Dutch people drowned.
    • The land was highly regular polder, punctuated by a grid like system of canals and waterways across the drained areas.
    • Slashed by rivers and canals, pocked with polders, meers and lakes and meshed in a web of interconnecting drainage ditches, the Netherlands are a long distance skater's dream.
    • Much of the western part of the country is polders (low-lying lands) that have been reclaimed from the sea by dikes and dunes.
    • This was the result of the gradual accumulation of silt in the river bed, brought down from overcultivated, erosion-prone slopes up-river, and of the excessive building of dikes in the lake areas to protect newly reclaimed polders.
    • He is the son of North Sea sailors (the flat openness of the Dutch polders is beautifully evoked in a flashback to Leon's boyhood) and it turns out he's been in love most of his life.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Dutch, from Middle Dutch polre.

Rhymes

beholder, boulder, folder, holder, moulder (US molder), scolder, shoulder, smoulder (US smolder), upholder, withholder

Definition of polder in US English:

polder

nounˈpōldərˈpoʊldər
  • A piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.

    圩田(尤指荷兰从海或河中用大堤围垦而造的低田)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • That was what happened in the terrible floods of February 1, 1953, when high tides and storms drove water inland over the polders of Zeeland Province and nearly 2000 Dutch people drowned.
    • The land was highly regular polder, punctuated by a grid like system of canals and waterways across the drained areas.
    • He is the son of North Sea sailors (the flat openness of the Dutch polders is beautifully evoked in a flashback to Leon's boyhood) and it turns out he's been in love most of his life.
    • The deciduous and evergreen trees around the small circular polder could serve as an uncontrived wall.
    • Based in the remote polder lands of Holland, Heerenveen, under the astute eye of their coach, Foppe de Haan, are seen in Dutch football as a sort of finishing school.
    • Before the Dutch diligently applied their drainage technology to the polders of the Médoc in the mid 17th century, the region was salt-marsh, of interest for grazing rather than vine-growing.
    • By far the largest population close to East Anglia is in the Netherlands where there has been a steady increase despite a drastic reduction in reedbed areas in the reclaimed polders.
    • Slashed by rivers and canals, pocked with polders, meers and lakes and meshed in a web of interconnecting drainage ditches, the Netherlands are a long distance skater's dream.
    • It was named after the land gained from the sea which in Dutch is called a polder.
    • There are 3500 polders (areas of reclaimed land) in the Netherlands, so the Dutch clearly enjoyed playing God.
    • Over 100 boxes were erected on a new polder and a large proportion were occupied by kestrels in the first season.
    • Much of the western part of the country is polders (low-lying lands) that have been reclaimed from the sea by dikes and dunes.
    • The population of Helix aspersa (Gastropoda: Helicidae) belongs to an intensive agricultural zone located in Brittany (northwestern France), in the polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.
    • Political abuse in Maine invited the Dutch king to confine his activities to dykes and polders and abstain from pronouncing upon mountain ridges.
    • A polder is a piece of land that has been reclaimed from the sea or a lake through drainage.
    • Perhaps it is more than a coincidence that Canada's populist party grew up on the prairies: flat land, divided into rectangular plots, in many ways similar to the Dutch polders.
    • Yet the Dutch polders have a strong aesthetic beauty.
    • This was the result of the gradual accumulation of silt in the river bed, brought down from overcultivated, erosion-prone slopes up-river, and of the excessive building of dikes in the lake areas to protect newly reclaimed polders.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Dutch, from Middle Dutch polre.

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