例文・使い方で印象づける「inundation」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...At the period of its annual inundation it rises fully twenty feet in perpendicular height, and floods fifteen or twenty miles of lands adjacent to its banks... 
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The soil is dark loam, as it is every where on spots reached by the inundation, while among the trees it is sandy, and not covered so densely with grass as elsewhere...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I have seen the ants at work by thousands, engaged in the work of erecting their hills in other districts suffering from inundation...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The inundation attained its greatest height towards the end of January, an event possessing almost the same importance as that of the rising of the Nile...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
..." We shall find them higher up the bed, only forming as the inundation begins; I doubt, however, that at any time they equal the meadows which stud the mouth of the Rio Formoso (Benin River)...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...The pack wouldclose in over the caribou like an inundation...
James Oliver Curwood 「Baree, Son of Kazan」
...In situations where there is danger of inundation, the floor of the interior is raised higher, and frequently terraces are made to admit of a dry seat, in case the ground-floor should get flooded...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The skill of this man once saved, as was supposed, a large and fertile district of France from inundation by a canal, whose banks the moles had undermined in every direction...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...In November, whenthe inundation has subsided, wheat, barley, and sorghum are sown...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...] This was knownto the Egyptians as Miri, Mi-ûri, the Great Lake, whence the Greeksderived their Moiris a name extended also to the inundation of theFayûm...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
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