earth embankments

• 土堤

earth embankments的用法和样例：

例句

1. The men built banks of earth to hold back the rising flood waters.
   男人们筑起土堤阻止上涨的洪水。
2. Sicilians gathered on the slopes of Mount Etna to pray last night as a river of orange-black lava oozed towards the mounds of earth protecting a tourist resort.
   西西里的居民聚集在埃特纳火山山坡上一起祈祷神灵的保佑，在离他们不远的地方，火山喷出的红黑色的熔岩流正朝着为保护旅游景点修建的土堤渗过来。