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n.
- a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
- a pier that provides a landing place on a river
- an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

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1.
N-COUNT A levee is a raised bank alongside a river. 河堤 [美国英语]

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Water poured over a levee and flooded about 75 percent of Montegut.

水漫过了河堤并淹没了蒙特古特75%的地区。
2.
N-COUNT a formal reception held by a sovereign just after rising from bed 晨起朝见

Even before the levees broke the schools were struggling, as the city was.

甚至在堤坝被毁以前，学校就已经运作艰难了，这座城市也一样。

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Levees protecting the delta at themouth of the river are in bad shape, too.

在河流入口处保护三角洲的堤岸也处于危险之中。

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Levees protecting the delta at the mouth of the river are in bad shape, too.

在河流入口处保护三角洲的堤岸也处于危险之中。

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Because of the risk of flooding, the city is surrounded by protective levees and floodwalls.

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The frames are levees that hold in the water for paddies in which rice is grown.

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Officials raised existing levees in response to the flooding caused by Hurricane Betsy in 1965.

CNN: Storm surge the fatal blow for New Orleans
Katrina is not the first massive storm to test the Lake Pontchartrain Basin levees.

CNN: Storm surge the fatal blow for New Orleans
New Orleans has already received 10 inches of rain, but so far the levees have held.

FORBES: Levee Breach Floods 800 Homes In Louisiana, And Other Notes From Isaac's Landfall

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