Old English dic "trench, ditch; an earthwork with a trench; moat," from Proto-Germanic *dik- (cognates: Old Norse diki "ditch, fishpond," Old Frisian dik "mound, dam," Middle Dutch dijc "mound, dam, pool," Dutch dijk "dam," German Deich "embankment"), from PIE root *dhigw- "to pierce; to fix, fasten" (cognates: Sanskrit dehi- "wall," Old Persian dida "wall, stronghold, fortress," Persian diz).
At first "an excavation," later (late 15c.) applied to the resulting earth mound; a sense development paralleled by cognate forms in many other languages. This is the northern variant of the word that in the south of England yielded ditch (n.).
雙語例句
1. A small wooden bridge straddled the dike.
一座小木橋橫跨在排水渠上。
來自柯林斯例句
2. They dug a dike along walls of the school.
他們沿校墻挖溝.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. Fortunately, the flood did not break the dike.
還好, 這場大水沒有把堤壩沖壞.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. When the river dike is completed , the crops will be safe against floods.
修好河堤, 莊稼就不怕淹了.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. The most impressive form of intrusive is the dike.