counterfort

n. 护墙, 扶壁, 山嘴

词形变化

counterforts 复数 counterforts

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A buttress built against a wall.

  2. 2.

    A spur of a mountain range.

    With its counterforts projecting some 300 miles, [the Pamir] forms the western headland of all the plateaux and mountain systems skirting the Chinese Empire; it completely separates the two halves of Asia, and forms an almost impassable barrier to migration and warlike incursions.

词源

From Middle French contrefort.

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