retaining wall
US /rɪˈtenɪŋ/
・UK /rɪˈteɪnɪŋ/
A1 初級
n.名詞擋土牆
The retaining wall prevents the soil from eroding.
影片字幕
祕魯馬丘比丘｜印加失落之城 (Machu Picchu, Peru | The Lost City of the Inca)
12:01
- This is kind of an uncrowded spot, but it does kind of show the genius of Inca engineering, which was to make these terraces that function not just as a retaining wall to basically stop this place from sliding away, but also as a drainage system because it rains a ton here and allows the water to seep down right back into the earth rather than creating rivers that would wash away everything below it.
這是一個人跡罕至的地方，但它確實展現了印加工程學的天才之處，那就是建造這些梯田，其作用不僅是作為擋土牆，基本上可以阻止這裡的滑坡，而且還可以作為排水系統，因為這裡經常下雨，雨水可以直接滲入地下，而不會形成河流沖走下面的一切。
19年前｜2020年9月11日 (19 Years Ago | September 11, 2020)
10:01
- Then there's the retaining wall that remarkably held strong even when the towers fell when the towers came down, all that debris that was here right in this space provided bracing for that wall.
還有那堵擋土牆，即使在高樓倒塌時也很堅固 當高樓倒塌時，所有的碎石都在這裡，就在這個空間裡，為那堵牆提供了支撐。
