watersheds

英 [ˈwɔːtəʃɛdz]

美 [ˈwɔtərˌʃɛdz]

n.  转折点，分界线，分水岭(标志着重大变化的事件或时期); 分水线; 分水岭; 分水界; (英国)儿童不宜节目可在电视上播放的起始时间
watershed的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 转折点;分水岭
  If something such as an event is awatershed inthe history or development of something, it is very important because it represents the beginning of a new stage in it.
  1. The election of Mary Robinson in 1990 was a watershed in Irish politics...
     1990年玛丽·鲁宾逊的当选是爱尔兰政治上的一个转折点。
  2. Tonight could prove to be a watershed for the international career of Barnes.
     今晚将可能成为巴恩斯国际职业生涯的转折点。
• N-COUNT (成人电视节目播出前的)分水岭时间
  The watershedis a time before which television broadcasters have agreed not to show programmes unsuitable for children, for example programmes that contain scenes of sex or violence.
  1. Bad language before the watershed is widely resented...
     在成人节目时间之前出现的脏话深为众人憎恶。
  2. The advert should only be shown after the 9pm watershed.
     这则广告只能在晚上9点成人节目开始后才能播出。
• 分水线；分水岭
  Awatershedis an area of high ground which divides two or more river systems, so that all streams on one side flow into one river and those on the other side flow into a different river.

双语例句

• They are the stewards of local forests and watersheds and are the ones that reap the benefit and costs of [ these] activities.
  他们是本地森林和流域的管理者，享受[这些]活动的收益并承担其代价。
• Yet he also turned deserts into watersheds and parched land into flowing springs.
  他又能使沙漠变成水源，使旱地变成水泉。
• We will work to improve the environment in key watersheds and regions, treat urban sewage and garbage, deal with pollution from non-point agricultural sources, and comprehensively clean up heavy metal pollution.
  积极推进重点流域区域环境治理及城镇污水垃圾处理、农业面源污染治理、重金属污染综合整治等工作。
• So today the pipes and reservoirs that gather the water are still in place, but the natural infrastructure of forests and watersheds has been badly degraded.
  所以，如今收集这些水的管道和水库虽然还在，但森林和流域的自然基础设施已经严重退化。
• In an opinion by then-Justice Rehnquist, the Supreme Court held that the sole purposes of creating national forests were to preserve timber supply and watersheds.
  据那时仍为大法官的里克斯特的观点，最高法院认为建立国家森林区的唯一目的是保护木材资源和分水线。
• Regional Distribution Regularity of Hydrological Model Parameter in Tianshan Mountains Watersheds
  天山山区水文模型参数的区域分布规律
• The effects of forest types on hydrochemical characteristics of streams in Liangshui National Nature Reserve were studied by the comparison experiment of watersheds.
  采用集水区对比分析方法，探讨凉水国家级自然保护区不同森林类型对溪流水化学特征的影响。
• The3R theory was explained in this study, and testified using two typical examples of controlling agricultural nonpoint source pollution in Taihu Lake and Dianchi Lake watersheds, respectively.
  在阐述了该理论后，从太湖流域和滇池流域典型区域农业面源污染控制的实践案例进行验证。
• The Vietnam War was one of the great watersheds of modern history.
  越南战争是现代史上重要的转折点之一。
• Phosphorous and nitrogen loss characteristic in runoff on four different soil types in watersheds in Jianshan River, Chengjiang were studied based on runoff observations.
  根据径流小区观测，对澄江尖山河小流域不同土地利用类型地表径流中氮、磷的流失特征进行了研究。