Sediment

(noun.) matter that has been deposited by some natural process.

(verb.) settle as sediment.

(verb.) deposit as a sediment.

录入:佩内洛普

• Similarly, the soil is formed from the overhanging mountains; it is washed as sediment into the sea; it is elevated, after consolidation, into the overhanging mountains. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Sediment ary rocks, like old red sandstone, and, according to Werner, basa lt, are in a third class. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Or sediment may be deposited to any thickness and extent over a shallow bottom, if it continue slowly to subside. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The deposits thus left by the evaporation of the sea water gradually became hidden by sediment and soil, and lost to sight. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• No loss of active material, hence no sediment short-circuits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The filter should be covered with fine woven wire, outside of which should be fastened a flannel cloth to catch all escaping sediment. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• By the sixth century A.D. the populations of Europe and North Africa had been stirred up like sediment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The geologists have studied the whole accumulation of these sediments as it remains to-day, from those of the earliest ages to the most recent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

录入:奥维尔