大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 great basin
释义：
great basin 大盆地（美国西南部）
例句：
The film begins with an aerial view of the Great Basin of Nevada.
影片以空中鸟瞰内华达大盆地的镜头开始。
Owens Valley in California lies on the western edge of the Great Basin.
加州的欧文斯谷处在大盆地的西部边缘。
I was driving home to New Mexico after spending ten days in Nevada's Great Basin Desert.
我正驱车回新墨西哥州的家，之前我在内华达州的大盆地沙漠里待了十天。
The Great Basin hosts drastically varied climates, from its cold, snowy mountains to its dry, hot desert valley.
大盆地的基质彻底地多样的气候，从它的寒冷，雪山到它的干燥，炎热的沙漠谷地。
First she fetched a great basin, and washed Tess's hair with such thoroughness that when dried and brushed it looked twice as much as at other times.
她先去拿来一个大脸盆，彻底地把苔丝的头发洗了一遍，等到头发干了，梳理好了，看起来头发好像比平时多了一倍。
Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six.
几乎和这两个孩子同时，另外一对也走近了大水池；一个五十岁光景的老人牵着一个六岁的小娃娃，这大概是父子俩。
Parts of the Great Basin are hotter and drier than they were ten years ago.
There's plenty of water for cooling and, apart from fans of the Great Basin National Park, no one around to complain.
Forecasters said high pressure over the Great Basin would send Santa Ana winds through and below passes and canyons and near coastal foothills until Thursday afternoon.
It lies in the Great Basin, an area where the earth's crust is thin and cracked, so it has great potential as a producer of geothermal power.
Ms. DAVIS: The potential for continued fires throughout the Pacific Northwest, the Great Basin and up into the northern Rockies is very high for the next month.
It marks what some people consider the northern border of the Great Basin and sits upon the farthest shore of what author Stephen Trimble calls the Sagebrush Ocean.
Through the years, Brower had a profound impact on America's wildlands by helping to create national parks and seashores in Kings Canyon, the North Cascades, the Redwoods, Great Basin, Alaska, Cape Cod, Fire Island and Point Reyes.
Late in the fall, during a rare lull in his work on the Mars program, Grotzinger and I took a drive to Death Valley due east from his house in lush San Marino, across the front range of the San Gabriels, past Apple Valley and Barstow, and down into the great basin of the Mojave.
