柯林斯詞典embankment /?m?b??km?nt/ (embankments) 1. N-COUNT An embankment is a thick wall of earth that is built to carry a road or railway track over an area of low ground, or to prevent water from a river or the sea from flooding the area. 堤 They climbed a steep embankment. 他們爬上了一個陡峭的堤岸。 ...a railway embankment. …一條鉄路路堤。 返回 embankment劍橋詞典an artificial slope made of earth and/or stones 堤，堤岸，堤圍；（路）堤 a river /road /railway embankment 河堤／路堤／鉄路路堤 返回 embankment