Dam

(noun.) female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock.

(noun.) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea.

(verb.) obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; 'dam the gorges of the Yangtse River'.

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• I ain't going to have any of this dam sentimental nonsense and humbug here, sir, the father cried out. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When you dam up a stream of water, as soon as the dam is full, as much water must run over the dam-head as if there was no dam at all. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• How he DU dam and swear, the servants would cry, delighted at his precocity. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When they have got this quantity, the dam is full, and the whole stream which flows in afterwards must run over. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Usually a leak in a dam or reservoir occurs near the bottom. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The higher and stronger the dam-head, the greater must be the difference in the depth of water behind and before it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The stream showed clear and smooth-looking in the glasses and, below the curl of the falling water, the spray from the dam was blowing in the wind. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The Bursting of Dams and Reservoirs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Besides, the stream had been dammed so that the valley was a lake. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He ought to be dammed--or leveed, I should more properly say. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Such feeling as Eustacia had idly given to Wildeve was dammed into a flood by Thomasin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In the second case the blood returning by the superficial veins is dammed back. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The task is turned from the damming and restricting of wants to the creation of fine environments for them. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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