大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 catchment area
释义：
catchment area 下游区；排水区
例句：
Its catchment area extended to the mountains around Seoul.
运河蓄水区一直延伸到了首尔周围的山区。
“It depends on the store level and the catchment area,” he says.
他指出：“类型要取决于商店的等级以及其所服务地区的情况。”
The catchment area of the dam, once constructed, will be the key to the future of the project.
He said the best hospitals for treating cancer serve a catchment area of at least one million people.
The island operates a catchment-based system where parents register their child for a place at their catchment area school.
Costs per pupil are the highest within the catchment area, far exceeding the average cost per pupil across Powys.
For the first time, places in its eight secondary schools will have been allocated randomly within each catchment area.
With more applications than places, the school would have to resort to admitting only pupils from within a defined catchment area.
James Rothnie from Easygroup said Milton Keynes was chosen because it has a specific catchment area and competition from an existing cinema.
Seventeen producing fields included in the Eni deal include the Andrew, Magnus, Kinnoull, ETAP, Merganser and the Flotta Catchment Area, including the Claymore field.
The council's admissions policy does not prioritise requests for brothers and sisters to go to the same school if it is outside their catchment area.
Only if there are spare places after local demand has been satisfied does a child from outside the catchment area have a chance of getting in.
When she applied for a school place, Mrs Patel gave the address of her mother, which was within the school's catchment area, rather than the family address.
In Guernsey, salt can only be used outside the water catchment area because it can contaminate the water supply, so the de-icer CMA needs to be used.
Despite the pupils living in the school's catchment area, the council argued the school was oversubscribed, and could not accommodate them without affecting the quality of education offered.
But by the end of the decade it is estimated the Welsh capital will have the UK's busiest shopping centre development with a catchment area of 1.6 million people.
Chief executive of Ashford and St Peter's Andrew Liles has said the merger will provide a stable future for Epsom as part of a larger catchment area of 600, 000 people.
In reality, parents are allowed to express a preference for a school but children within the catchment area are usually given priority in the allocation of places, assuming the school is non-selective.
High street retailers can benefit from new shopping trends according to Ms Parrott as "the internet can be a real opportunity for smaller businesses who do not have a large catchment area".
But Poole council used it to spy for nearly three weeks on a young family who had applied to a local primary school to see if they lived in the right catchment area.
Phillip Pickersgill, the EA's flood risk manager for south west Wales, said the "unfortunate thing" was that the River Leri had a small catchment area and he did not believe officials had "missed any signs".
