Irrigation

(noun.) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution.

(noun.) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc.

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• They had seen the Roosevelt influence adding to the resources of life--irrigation, and waterways, conservation, the Panama Canal, the country life movement. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Agriculture made possible by irrigation. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He made the canals and organized the irrigation (_e. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By destroying forests and by irrigation man has already affected the climate of great regions of the world's surface. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• They practised farming in a scientific way, and had good systems of irrigation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Irrigation, or the artificial watering of land, is of the greatest importance in those parts of the world where the land is naturally too dry for farming. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The everyday conception of water is more available for ordinary uses of drinking, washing, irrigation, etc. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In an inscription recording his irrigation work in Sumeria and Akkadia, he begins: When Anu and Bel entrusted me with the rule of Sumer and Akkad----. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Rice for its growth needs periodical flooding, and irrigation often supplies the necessary water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• By irrigation, on the other hand, man restores the desert to life and mitigates climate. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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