rapids
UK/ræpidz/US
GREB1
Definitions
n.
A fast, turbulent section of a river, where the water rushes over rocks.
急流；湍流（河中水流冲过乱石的湍急河段）。
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedOriginally 'rapid' as a noun meant one fast stretch of river; English settled on the plural rapids as the everyday name for it. This is the family member that keeps the original force of rapere ('to seize, sweep away') — rapids are water that grabs and hurls a boat downstream, not just water that moves fast.
Root rapid still carries 4 more wordsCommon Collocations
- 1.shoot the rapids穿越急流
- 2.white-water rapids白浪急流
- 3.navigate the rapids驾驭急流
- 4.turbulent rapids湍急的激流
Example Sentences
- 1.
They shot the rapids in a small rubber raft.
- 2.
The river narrows into dangerous rapids below the falls.
- 3.
Guides warned us the rapids were too strong to navigate.