| 单词 | polder |
| 例句 | The brothers arrive at a polder windmill in Rijswijk just as the rain stops. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There are black clouds aplenty, storms at sea and, yes, rain over the polders. Why is it raining in 19th-century art? 2010-06-22T11:31:00Z He said there was increasing focus on so-called "green-adaptation" measures, like polders and plains that can be flooded, to stop water running off too fast. From China to Germany, floods expose climate vulnerability 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z This approach is so ingrained in Dutch politics, there is a name for it: the ‘‘poldermodel,” with polder meaning “land reclaimed from the sea.” Playing by the Rules: Dutch Leader Offers a Sober Contrast in a Brash Era 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “Over 500 years, each decade or every 20 years, you can draw a new map of the Netherlands because there are new embankments or polders or whatever. There was a continuous process going on.” Marker Wadden, the manmade Dutch archipelago where wild birds reign supreme 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z The mammoth project follows another major infrastructure initiative announced last autumn, in which 20,000 new homes will be built on a polder, low-lying land reclaimed from the sea, north of the capital. 'Europe's Silicone Valley': Denmark plans nine new islands 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The country has built 139 polders in an attempt to protect land from the increasing incursions of salty water brought on in part by climate change. Our favorite Science photos of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Out in West Flanders, where windmills and church towers dot the countryside, the flat polder land runs through the battlefields of World War One. Racing through Flanders Fields 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z The greatest challenge to opening the polders isn't the engineering, it's the people. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z For the smaller rivers that have already sunk too far to flow out to sea, pumping stations and polders are being built, with reservoirs to hold water at times of heavy rain and flooding. $40bn to save Jakarta: the story of the Great Garuda 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The Dutch are masters of compromise - just Google "polder mentality". Dutch referendum a difficult result for EU and Ukraine - BBC News 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The islands, or "polders," are still protected by embankments—but, the study notes, those earthen structures also cause elevation loss, along with poor drainage and other problems. Embankments Exacerbate Sea Level Rise in Bangladesh 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Reclaimed land was turned into monoculture “polders” for grazing cattle. Polder and wiser 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The land inside the polder is visibly lower than the shoreline outside it. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Homes in these polders, he notes, tend to be on land that sits half a meter or more above the polder basins, so would be protected from the influx. The Race Is On to Protect Millions of People from Flooding 2014-04-13T12:00:00Z Homes in these polders, he notes, tend to be on land that sits half a metre or more above the polder basins, so would be protected from the influx. Floods: Holding back the tide 2014-04-09T17:20:25.330Z They found a significant disparity between the two landscapes—between 1 and 1.5 meters—that represented 0.2 centimeter per year of relative elevation change over the five decades since the polder was constructed. Embankments Exacerbate Sea Level Rise in Bangladesh 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Many Dutch live below sea level so flood management technology is vital "Nevertheless, with the ever-increasing urbanisation of our polders and flood plains, spatial planning is increasingly combined with flood resilience," adds Mr Maccabiani. UK looks at floating homes option 2012-11-28T12:08:41Z Land inside the polders, starved of new soil that would otherwise flow in, is sinking. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Their level ranges from about 1� to 4 ft. above that of the pasture polders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Agriculture and commerce were encouraged by the construction of a number of excellent roads and the making of several important polders. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z Into this I put slices of beef, and let it stew slowly till quite done, and then thicken the sauce with polder starch. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Alkmaar, a busy trading place near the Texel, had little of the picturesque for an artist except polders and downs or waves and sky. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z That day in 2009, a wave of water originating from nearby Cyclone Aila combined with strong currents to burst through embankments on several polders. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z It sometimes happens that a polder is not in direct contact with the boezem to which it belongs, but first drains into an adjacent polder, from which the water is afterwards removed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z As the breakaway hit the polders it quickly became clear that the breeze was refreshing rather than Tour-wrecking. Cavendish at heart of crash controversy 2010-07-04T19:22:00Z Its towns were depleted of their craftsmen, its polders converted into marshes by the incursions of the sea, and wolves and wild boars again wandered through the country as in the early Middle Ages. Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Leaving Leyden and following the flat roadway by the glimmering canals, which chop the polders, and tulip gardens off into checker-board squares, one reaches Haarlem, less than thirty kilometres away. The Automobilist Abroad It's a first step in a push by the Bangladeshi government to build up the entire polder system with an eye toward rising seas. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z In time of drought the water in the canals and boezems is allowed to run back into the polders, and so serve a double purpose as water-reservoirs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The soil of the polders thus drained is remarkably rich and productive. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim The reclaimed lands, or "polders," include not only the sea-bottom, but the coast marshes as well; even the rivers are bordered with levees in order to prevent overflows. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The tulip beds of the polders and sunken gardens of the neighbourhood of Haarlem are one of the great sights of Holland. The Automobilist Abroad Goodbred and a research team found that land inside the polder was more than a meter below the average high tide in the area. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Some boezems, again, which are less easily controlled, have a “danger water-level” at which they refuse to receive any more water from the surrounding polders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z These low grounds, formerly swamps and lagoons, which lie below the sea level, are called polders. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim Windmills are the machinery by which the water is pumped from the polders into the sea. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The polders of Holland are not richer than this swamp land;185 indeed, they are not so rich. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania It's much like the prescription Goodbred offered—use controlled flooding to raise sunken land and drain polders—but this experiment began almost by accident in the early 1990s. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Some polders also have a winter peil as a precaution against the increased fall of water in that season. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z They call the tracts of land that lie lower than the channels of water around them, polders. Rollo in Holland Almost every acre of the polders is under cultivation, and these lands grow a very large part of the vegetables and flowers consumed in the great cities of England, France, and Belgium. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges We were skirting one side of the green plain which has been reclaimed from the water, converting the meer into a "polder." The Chauffeur and the Chaperon These inland polders are designed to protect against flooding by seawater driven far up river channels during high tides. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Nearly all the polders of Zeeland and South Holland are able to discharge naturally into the sea at average low water, self-regulating sluices being used. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The polders all have drains and canals cut in them. Rollo in Holland The Dutch polder are not flatter or greener than are these intervening meadows. Highways and Byways in Sussex Above the level landscape, ��Rich polders, long-armed mills, Canals and ancient cities,— ��Float Holland's heavenly hills. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Local ingenuity and desperation prompted farmers on two river systems in southwest Bangladesh to cut gaps in embankments to open the polders to the river. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z But in North Holland and Utrecht on the contrary the polder water has generally to be raised. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The polder that would first be filled would become a lake. Rollo in Holland The polders of Holland are familiar to all travellers, as lands lying below the level of the sea, once a mere morass, redeemed from that state, and brought into cultivation by embankments, &c., &c. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 The prospect is mingled wood and polder: to the east and south-east, shaggy hills; to the west, the moors of Brabant; to the north, Arnheim’s dark heights. A Wanderer in Holland Within a few years, the land inside the inland polders had risen a meter or more. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z In some deep polders and drained lands where the water cannot be brought to the required height at once, windmills are found at two or even three different levels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z As we ride along in the railway carriages we overlook these polders. Rollo in Holland I have always supposed that the "terra Flandrensis" of my charter signified land of the same description as the Dutch polders; the art of thus redeeming land being probably introduced from the Low Countries. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Instead of green country lanes, green canals stretch from field to barn and from barn to garden; and the farms, or polders, as they are termed, are merely great lakes pumped dry. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates It encircles 80 square kilometers of land to create a massive "polder"—an artificial island surrounded by the vast tidal rivers that extend like thick tendrils from the nearby Bay of Bengal. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The old Dutch painters loved them, Their pictures show them clear,— Old Hobbema and Ruysduel, Van Goyen and Vermeer, Above the level landscape, Rich polders, long-armed mills, Canals and ancient cities,— Float Holland's heavenly hills. The Red Flower Poems Written in War Time Above the level landscape, Rich polders, long-armed mills, Canals and ancient cities,— Float Holland's heavenly hills. Songs out of Doors Thus he says, with a glow of satisfaction, 'I possess an aviary and a garden, like my cousin Hans on the polders, although my home is on the moving waters.' Dutch Life in Town and Country Even in the new wild places they planted stakes on the pumped out dry land, called polders. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks That's starkly apparent across the country's polders, which have disrupted a fragile standoff between water and land and are now straining to hold back the water. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Within a century, three entire polders on the north coast of Noordbeveland have again vanished, and in the place where they were there flows a stream forty yards deep. Holland The History of the Netherlands But we are ignorant of the proportions in which the marine deposits that form the soil of the polders have been derived from materials brought down by these rivers, or from other more remote sources. The Earth as Modified by Human Action Many believed the answer was to strengthen the polders. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z After monsoon rains, water in the polders failed to drain through small canals into surrounding, now sluggish, rivers. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z That trend will put the polders and their inhabitants at even greater risk. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z A construction crew cut through the embankment of a polder lining the Kobadak River. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Workers then dug a canal joining the river outside the polder to a 660-hectare depression inside it—a wetland known as a beel. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z As the main river channel grows deeper, water is once again draining from nearby polders. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The polder's land rose unevenly, with the area near the canal benefiting the most. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The devastation of Sardar's polder, Polder 32, starkly illustrates the dangers posed by that confluence of climate change and decades of hydraulic tinkering. As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z |
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